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A staff member of the Albosta subcommittee doubts that a Reagan campaign spying operation will be found. Said he: "It's gone beyond something just coming over the transom, but we don't see it heading into a major organized effort." Meantime, for the majority of the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mole in the Garbage Can | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

The eleventh-hour diversion showed, as President Reagan noted in a congratulatory postflight telephone chat with the Challenger crew, that for all of NASA's "miracles" in space, "no one can do anything about the weather." Reagan had hoped to be watching at the Kennedy Space Center and, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Accomplished | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

2) Short-term bilingual education, which may offer a full curriculum but is directed toward moving students into English-language classes as rapidly as possible. In a report last month by a Twentieth Century Fund task force, members who were disillusioned with the performance of elaborate bilingual programs urged diversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Against a Confusion of Tongues | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

As a well-known lawyer in Philadelphia for many years with extensive experience in trial advocacy. I read with jaundiced eye the flatulent lament of President Derek Bok as reported to Time Magazine. As any experienced lawyer knows particularly a trial lawyer, the individual and the small businessman has the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok's Report | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

The volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Challenging Mount Etna's Power | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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