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In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas declared a unilateral cease-fire in three regions and pulled their troops out of those areas -- a mostly symbolic move, since the Sandinistas exercised next to no control there. In Managua, Ortega opened discussions with unarmed opposition groups across the political spectrum. These moves are called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Captain Ahab vs. Moby Dick | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Against this background, the singular hubris of IBA was to try to have it both ways -- a large-scale building program like those of the '20s and '50s, but with the strong concern for tradition and diversity that has predominated in the late '70s and '80s. The ambitions were grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Rebuilding Berlin - Yet Again | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

There came to him an image of man's whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man's life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man's grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: You Can't Go Home Again | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Just then, that boy, Kirk DesHotels dismounted and ran for a chicken. The rules are that all chickens must be chased on foot. The chicken got away. A | tourist, a blond Tennessean with looks that beg a swoon, approached young Kirk to share a word. He gave her one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

When the truck came, it took the children to Hamidia Hospital. More than 350 doctors, 1,000 nurses and 500 medical students were there to treat the people who came wandering in, suffering from the poisonous gas. All 750 beds were occupied, and the grounds looked like a vast, sad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: I Thought I Had Seen Everything | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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