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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years what the Big Three networks could not do in 30. He has given the American people nonpackaged news reports 24 hours a day. Eventually, network news executives will learn that flashy video graphics and handsome anchors by themselves do not constitute good journalism. Go get 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 1982 | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

Finally, the perfect knock-'em-dead gift for the man or woman who has everything: something to protect everything with. Not your ordinary cold steel snub nose, mind you. That would never do for kings, sultans and other mega-consumers. At Bijan's exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golden Guns | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...prove that the Post had printed its story "with knowledge that it was false, or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." But the jury apparently concluded that however non-reckless the internal review procedures may have been, the Post's aggressive, go-get-'em style of newspaper journalism was itself reckless. That conclusion may not survive Judge Gasch's expected review of the verdict or an appeal that the Post promised to file if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Pummeled Post | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wellfleet Blues MIDNIGHTS by Alec Wilkinson | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have 'em right on." But so far the Spanish authorities have kept the situation under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Le Mundial des Surprises! | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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