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...Editors: After reading the cover story "How to Spend a Trillion" [July 27], one can hardly avoid a feeling of disquiet considering the accounts of manpower shortages, equipment failures, indecision about future weapons and industry's inability to fulfill military needs. At least we now have an Administration ready to address the problem realistically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 17, 1981 | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...efforts to lessen the impact of the Afghanistan invasion on Soviet citizens, the Kremlin leadership is beginning to discover that the war has caused considerable disquiet and difficulties on the home front. Although there are no credible casualty figures, Dissident Andrei Sakharov has spoken of "thousands" of Soviet deaths; relatives and friends of soldiers have become uncomfortably aware that the number of casualties is high. According to Moscow-based European diplomats, Soviet authorities have stopped burying soldiers with full military honors in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the deaths. Many of the seriously wounded have been flown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: It will be like Viet Nam | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...warrant any risks. Haldeman thought that an agreement was a potential liability; he was certain that Democratic Candidate George McGovern's support had been reduced to fanatics who would not vote for Nixon even if he arranged the Second Coming. On the other hand, an agreement might disquiet conservative supporters. The Viet Nam negotiations, in short, were not used to affect the election; the election was used to accelerate the negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...this history is interpreted by the heart of the Poles, we must come here, we must listen to this shrine, we must hear the echo of the life of the whole nation in the heart of its mother and queen. And if her heart beats with a tone of disquiet, if it echoes with solicitude and the cry for the conversion and strengthening of consciences, this invitation must be accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Polish Sayings of John Paul II | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Although American Jews generally back the Begin government, some disquiet about its policies has surfaced. Two weeks ago, 36 leading U.S. Jewish intellectuals, including Novelist Saul Bellow and Sociologist Daniel Bell, sent an open message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: PlaneTalk on Capitol Hill | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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