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...strategy, so far, has failed resoundingly. When Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein reported at a budget meeting that even so fervent a congressional hawk as Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican House whip, is now calling for a slowdown in military spending, the President silently shook his head no. Reagan then interrupted the uncomfortable session to place a call to the astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle. As if glad for an escape, he told the astronauts, "Well, now, wait till I get my hat and I'll go with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reagan Decides | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...this century, Malcolm Muggeridge, 79, the great gadfly of British letters, has unleashed his rapier prose on much that civilized man has too foolishly held dear, including, from time to time, organized religion. Late last month, however, the durable old iconoclast, who had been raised a Methodist, marched his fervent bundle of contradictions down to a tiny white chapel in Hurst Green, Sussex, and with his wife became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Once a hearty drinker and womanizer, Muggeridge somewhat stunned his readers in 1969 with the admission that he had become a practicing Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1982 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

When World War II broke out in 1939, the ANC felt itself gradually pressed towards more radical mass action. Some Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch and German colonists, launched a fervent master race movement, which almost awayed the country to Nazism. Although a close and bitter battle in the South African Parliament brought the country into the war on the Allied side, a few Afrikaner paramilitary splinter groups continued to fight for a republic similar to Nazi Germany. The last South African prime minister, John Vorster, was jailed during the war as a Nazi sympathizer...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: Apocalypse, Now | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

That emphasis on social justice, particularly the abolition of war, was carried forward by Pope Paul VI in his memorable 1965 address to the United Nations, where he pleaded: "No more war! War never again!" John Paul II is equally fervent. In a dramatic and symbolic speech at the Hiroshima memorial, he demanded that humanity make a "moral about-face" from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bishops and the Bomb | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...Sadat) leaned forward in his chair, pointed his finger at Begin, and exclaimed. "Premier Begin, you want land" Sadat reminded as that the disputed phrase was extracted directly from United Nations Resolution 242, which all of us agreed to be the foundation of our peace efforts. He was fervent in condemning "the Israeli settlements on my land...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Carter and the Politics of Faith | 11/12/1982 | See Source »

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