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Weinberger, who has a lot to learn about the subtleties of diplomatic discourse, has a tendency to make casual and imprecise pronouncements that later have to be corrected by others. In his first press conference, he said that the U.S. might decide to deploy the enhanced-radiation warhead known as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Softly, with a Big Stick | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

All three claimed to belong to an underground group called Al Zulfikar, presumably named for ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom Zia deposed and had executed in 1979. An American passenger on the ill-fated flight, Frederick Hubbell, 29, said the hijackers were "deliberately erratic. Sometimes they were kind, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijacking: A Victory for Terrorism | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Luis Aponte, a 26-year old survivor of the ill-fated Inter-American League, is a short reliever, which is good, and a righthander, which may be bad. He pitched fairly well in limited action with the Red Sox last year, and plenty of people seem impressed ("If anyone is...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Red Sox Prospectus: The Young Arms | 3/6/1981 | See Source »

Discovering that American success and virtue are not necessarily part of a divine agenda may have been a rather painful loss of innocence-but innocence is always overrated anyway. A wiser nation may now begin to discover the vast creativity available in its possibilities. America must start experimenting again in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Revive Responsibility | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Except at Easter, when they cling glutinously to countless baskets of green plastic grass, jelly beans have never ranked high in the American sweet-tooth sweepstakes. Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hill of Beans | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

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