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...TIME Senior Writer Lance Morrow and Staff Photographer Neil Leifer, this week's cover story and picture essay on wildlife mark the culmination of seven adventurous weeks in East Africa. The assignment gave Morrow a chance to leave the routines of New York City behind and drift in the expanses of Kenya's plains and mountains, sampling "their freedom and magic spaciousness." Leifer had wanted to return to Kenya since 1984, when he snapped a runner there for TIME's picture preview of Olympic athletes. "Most of my assignments are somewhat predictable," says Leifer. "With animals, you never know...
...last fall when India launched Operation Brass Tacks, a war game that took place along the frontier and involved 180,000 troops. This alarmed Pakistan, which responded by deploying two armored divisions near India's Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir states. Move and countermove began an escalation that threatened to drift into...
...renowned for his studies confirming plate tec tonic theories of sea floor spreading and continental drift. His work showed that the earth's magnetic field had reversed. He received the highest honor for achievement in the earth sciences, the Vetlesen Prize...
...conservative presidency dedicated to reducing the power of Government; sweeping new programs, to put it mildly, are not its forte. All in all, a sense is growing in Washington that the creative period of the Reagan Administration is over, and the prospect is for two years of drift while the thoughts of the nation turn increasingly to the post-Reagan era about to begin. Some longtime Reagan loyalists outside the Government even find that a benign idea. Asks one veteran of the first term: "Is it so bad to have two years of comfortableness...
...understanding of issues has long been a public secret; indeed it is the worrisome basis for his defense of himself from any Iranscam culpability. But even if his poor concentration is no worse than it has been for years, the problems it has recently caused and the sense of drift that has emerged make it a matter of concern once more and a point of attack for critics who no longer consider Reagan unassailable. As he approaches his 76th birthday on Feb. 6, while recuperating from prostate surgery, an old question is once again being raised in Washington...