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...first time the 11-year-old Society Expeditions has offered a trip to a weird place. Previous tours have included Easter Island, Antarctica and Mongolia...

Author: By Mark R. Hoffenberg, | Title: Tired of Sun 'n Surf? Try a Space Vacation | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

Occasional cutting vignettes appear--such as the hippie painter asking tourists "to compare the peacefulness they would see on Haight Street with the violence of the beer-drinking college kids at Fort Lauderdale over the Easter holiday"--but the book largely avoids undue sentimentality...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Where Have the Hippies Gone? | 10/26/1985 | See Source »

...have been adroit. Over the Easter weekend, Gorbachev proposed that the Soviet Union and the U.S. immediately stop deployment of intermediate- range nuclear weapons in Europe. The ploy was too transparent to work. The Soviets had essentially completed their missile buildup, and the U.S. was in the midst of countervailing emplacements; a freeze would have left the U.S.S.R. with a huge lead in warheads. Even the Dutch government, which earlier had waffled on accepting American missiles, turned down the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Vigorous Leader | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Act: Chief Wiley, meet Judge Crater | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...Chilean government is expected to approve NASA's proposal, despite opposition from a number of Chileans. In a letter to a Santiago newspaper, members of an environmental group, the League for Nature and Peace, warned against "the great ecological damage that such a venture will bring to Easter Island." But David Garrett, NASA spokesman for Space Flight, insists that if the project is approved, NASA will "abide by all Chilean environmental- protection requirements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile Quest in the Pacific | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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