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1. Navy Discharge. Perot, an Annapolis graduate, claims that he cut short his Navy hitch because his commanding officer wanted him to bend or break shipboard rules. The officer, now retired, flatly denies this. Another Perot explanation -- that he was shocked to discover that sailors used profane language -- belongs in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whole Truth and Nothing But? | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

DICK CHENEY HAS EARNED HIGH MARKS AS THE BUSH ADMINIStration's embodiment of square-jawed Western rectitude. But some in the U.S. military no longer see him that way. Though his forthright account of dozens of House-bank overdrafts while a Congressman satisfied most political observers, it did not wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in The Ranks | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

A. Clearly, I miss him a lot. I wrote a book for him in this time because it was just about the only thing I could do for him. A lot of the normal requirements a child would have of his father I've been unable to discharge. I talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Speech Is Life Itself: SALMAN RUSHDIE | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Other proposed missile technology defenses would be far too costly to install in every city of every state--and there's no guarantee that missile technology will work. The example of the Patriot missile merely diverting a Scud into a U.S. Army base underlines the irrationality of SDI. Most nuclear...

Author: By Matthew L. Jones, | Title: No Weapons in Space | 10/8/1991 | See Source »

The timing of the latest hostage releases may be linked to the growing likelihood that a U.S.-Soviet-sponsored peace conference on the Middle East will take place this fall. According to the byzantine theory offered by some Middle East experts, McCarthy's discharge conveniently pre-empted the favorable publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Game of Chances | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

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