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...Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even a Day of the Dolphin-all equally preposterous and plausible, thanks to the strapped imaginations of real-life bureaucrats. Who but a hack could have thought up 1978's Bulgarian defector "poison umbrella" caper in London? The first time a dolphin is hauled in for questioning, who will giggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wars of Assassination | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...deliberately impressive array of speakers--a Nobel laureate in medicine, a retired admiral (defector from the military-industrial establishment), two pioneers in the development of nuclear weapons, researchers of Hiroshima and of the nuclear tests in Utah, the top names at Harvard Medical School--viewed the possibility of nuclear holocaust from a variety of traditionally antithetical perspectives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Urge Nuclear Weapon Control | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...sotto voce complaint, in addition, was that Soviet Defector Alexander Godunov had been offered a six-figure salary to dance with the A.B.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...acres of land just across a lake from a nine-acre ranch used by Barham and his wife Martha. Kübler-Ross called her property Shanti-Nilaya ("Home of Peace" in Sanskrit) and made it a center for workshops on death and dying. One result, says a defector from the center, is that "she is so emotionally dependent on the Barhams that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Conversion of K | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...double defector tells of gunrunning from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tantalizing Tales from the I.R.A. | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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