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That's one for the geopoliticians to sort out. What with the First Secretary on the radio trying to talk him down, and the second Firefox prototype trying to shoot him down, Mitchell Gant has his hands full. He is engaged in a dogfight covering thousands of square miles...
Some fanciful notions about avoiding the nuclear nightmare
It's Idi Amin Dada, all right, shapeless thobe robes, ghutra headgear and all. The onetime President-for-Life of Uganda, who fled from his country three years ago, has lived a relatively secluded and uncharacteristically quiet existence in Jidda, Saudi Arabia. From an interview with a Turkish journalist...
But all of a sudden students seemed interested, so the Board underwent "outreach." It formed a student panel with a fanciful name--the Advisory Panel on Student Concerns--by asking friendly high school guidance counselors to spread the word and find some eligible, intelligent teenagers. The Board placed a couple...
Rather than take such draconian action, Congress is more likely to search for new sources of revenue. Reagan has proposed to lop $27.5 billion off the 1983 deficit by closing a few business tax loopholes and taking various "management initiatives," but TIME's board considered that estimate fanciful. For...