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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of Red Brigades "columns," rather like Communist cells, are urged to establish "a well-defined [false] identity, even in the smallest details." If, for example, a Brigatisto pretends to be an artisan, he "must leave home every day before 8 in the morning and not return before 12:30 in the afternoon, leave again at 2 p.m. and return home at 7 p.m. or later." As the manual puts it: "The role assumed must be carefully studied, so that any irregularities in one's behavior can be explained." Militants should never write down phone numbers, even in code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How to Be a Terrorist | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...operations, Hugh Calkins, acting on behalf of the Corporation, decided instead to abstain. This action made a mockery of their protestations of reliance on the ACSR--itself hardly a representative body. Unless the Corporation itself intends to review every company, it must either respect the ACSR's recommendations or establish another agency to consider these questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Corporation's South Africa Investment Decision | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

While you quoted portions of Senator Moynihan's attack on me and my amendment, you failed to mention a single favorable argument or the fact that 36 other Senators saw fit to support it. It is not absurd for the U.S. to establish a simple, legal basis from which to operate should Panama abrogate the treaty. Both Panamanians and Americans deserve to know what standard will apply if the treaty is not upheld. My amendment made it clear that if Panama goes back on this agreement, all other agreements and treaties we had with the Panamanians would re-enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1978 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...signals from the horizontal antennas when the aircraft is on one side of the electronic funnel's center line. When it is on the other, a drop in frequency occurs. A similar Doppler shift, as it is called, would be detected in the signals from vertical antennas to establish elevation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New MLS, But Whose? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Apparently neither Stallone nor anyone else who worked on this picture could bear to part with the lumpish likability that all tried so hard to establish at the beginning. In the end they sacrifice everything-insight, morality, a dramatic arc-to preserve intact their star's only known quality, best described as a sort of vulgar affability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: J.U.N.K. | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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