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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally, the human assessment of those men who guide the Soviet Union. With inoculations of suspicion and skepticism, Warnke has approached what he regards as a moment of truth. Though the Soviets remain unruly and difficult world citizens, Warnke believes that they are a bruised and lonely people who fear nuclear war, who in their singular way are searching for their place in the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: On Trusting the Soviets | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...have been some of the traffickers against whom Bario was moving, allegedly including high Latin American officials. Some DEA officials might also have had reason to want Bario dead, if his trial were to expose illegal acts by certain agents. Says his lawyer: "He had an abiding fear of his own agency, although I have no evidence the DEA did anything to make this happen." The attending physician says there may be a more innocent explanation: "He may have choked on his sandwich." He adds, however, "But I don't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Case of Agent Bario | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...full of pretend bluster. When Kilpatrick takes the conservative side against Shana Alexander on CBS's 60 Minutes, their genial volleys are reminiscent of Robert Frost's definition of free verse-like playing tennis with the net down. Such show-biz parodies suggest a network's fear of the bite of real contention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Polemics with a Satisfying Zap | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Kaiser has more reason than most to be satisfied. Though Kaster is perched atop millions of tons of brown gold, the town won landmark status in the mid-1950s because most of its structures date from the 16th century. Under West German practice, that means Kaster probably need never fear the onslaught of Rheinbraun's omnivorous Bagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing That Ace in the Hole | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...most part more restrained about making new law than they are now. Today many Americans do resent an ever-more-activist judiciary. Beware, warns a vocal group of scholars: the Imperial Presidency may have faded, but now an Imperial Judiciary has the Republic in its clutches. The fear, as Constitutional Scholar Alexander Bickel once expressed it, is that too many federal judges view themselves as holding "roving commissions as problem solvers, charged with a duty to act when majoritarian institutions do not." Given license by a vague Constitution and malleable laws, and armed with their own rigorous sense of right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Have the Judges Done Too Much? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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