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People have learned to live with the knowledge that they will die. But the evidence that entire nations, apparently invincible behemoths, may be similarly fated has proved the source of enormous curiosity and awe. The Old Testament exclamation "How are the mighty fallen!" was only one of the earliest recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why All Empires Come to Dust THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

While Washington officials pondered what to do with the men they delicately termed "detainees" rather than "prisoners," the Iranians were transferred from the Jarrett to the La Salle. Dressed in fresh La Salle T shirts and oversize jeans, the sailors were bound by the wrists with plastic handcuffs, their ankles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary Dole, Meet Mrs. Dole | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

But blaming the flaps may be premature. The plane's computerized warning system never alerted the crew that the flaps were not extended. At week's end a co-pilot of a nearby Northwest jet who said he observed Flight 255's ill- fated takeoff insisted that the slats and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sifting Through the Wreckage | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

The gulf fiasco is only the latest ill-fated attempt by the Reagan Administration to assert U.S. interests by deploying troops on largely symbolic missions. The crew of the Stark was on a poorly defined mission when it was struck by wayward Iraqi Exocet missiles last May. In 1983 Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into Rough Water | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

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