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Why the severe treatment? The government explained, not very convincingly, that Nkomo had been trying to leave the country under a false name, and that he was illegally carrying 300 Zimbabwean dollars. Demanded Nkomo, who is over 6 feet tall, weighs around 300 Ibs. and is easily recognized all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Flight Canceled | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

The incident dramatized the uneasy relations between the U.S. and Israel as Washington presses the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon added a new element of tension to the situation when he declared last week in a newspaper interview that the Soviet Union and Israel should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East If: We Will Do What We Please | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Down the Tube | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Fortunately, this free-market competition is paying big dividends for consumers. In shopping for new phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Money | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

Built by a consortium led by Henry Ford II, Ren Cen consists of a 73-story hotel and four 39-story office buildings. Since it opened in 1977, the center has lost $140 million, prompting the Detroit Free Press to call it "perhaps the country's largest white elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Towering Debts | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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