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...began airing a $250,000 series of campaign commercials in which capital punishment is never mentioned. Instead, in language she wrote herself, she intones from a setting that resembles a law office, "Judges with a backbone are a California tradition worth keeping." An admirable sentiment but one unlikely to disarm her opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Shaking the Judicial Perch: Rose Bird | 9/15/1988 | See Source »

Reza, from early childhood, felt guilty for the pain his condition caused the family. He tried to compensate by becoming a totally undemanding, problem- $ free child, and to disarm potential tormentors with charm -- or stoicism when, as often happened, they persisted in their cruelty. "He's never cranky," says Giancalo Chersich, a classmate and friend of Reza's from early childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...description. They agreed to create five neutral zones within Nicaragua where rebel troops will congregate while Sandinista and contra leaders continue to negotiate what the Sapoa accord calls a "definitive cease-fire." But the boundaries of the agreed-upon zones remain unfixed, when and how the rebels will disarm is still unclear, and the designation of a "neutral organization" to deliver & humanitarian aid to the contras could become a source of dispute, with some contras favoring a commercial company and the Sandinistas demanding a humanitarian relief group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Taking a Baby Step Toward Peace | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...felt as though I had asked how to disarm a nuclear warhead. I laughed at him, thus losing the continuity of my shaving process, which could have had detrimental drying effects on my complexion, but it was worth...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: A Freudian Interpretation of Harvard Life | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...just have to wait and see what they're talking about," said Fitzwater. Privately, officials denounced the scheme. "It sounds a lot like the Sandinistas' old unilateral cease-fire," said a naysayer at State. Although Contra Leader Adolfo Calero shot down Ortega's call for the rebels to disarm, the contras seemed to withhold judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America The Wright Stuff | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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