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Housewife Marian Finger, 44, was startled to hear her son Eric, a seventh-grader at the Emma C. Smith Elementary School in Livermore, Calif., describe what he learned in school. "Mom," he said, "evolutionists don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Putting Darwin Back in the Dock | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...indication that Soviet troops would be withdrawn anytime soon. But he denied any Soviet designs on the Persian Gulf and proposed that the "military threat" to the region be removed by international agreement. U.S. policymakers were unimpressed. "It's a stale reiteration of their desire to get a finger in the Persian Gulf pie," said an intelligence analyst in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: An Olive Branch of Sorts | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...bladder emptied reflexively. A moment passed. I awaited the impact, searched for the pain. Another moment. Was I dead? Then there was a surge of emotion, the realization that they had not shot me. I cried uncontrollably. My blindfold was ripped off and the mullah was yelling, waving his finger in my face. But I could not hear a word. I was dazed, my vision blurred, the shouted order to fire and the crack of the rifles echoed ceaselessly in my head. I babbled insanely as they dragged me back to my cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is to Happen to Me Tonight? | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...Margaret Thatcher was in for a bruising confrontation as she rose from the government front bench last week to answer hostile opposition challenges about the country's unemployment, the worst since the 1930s. Days earlier, when she wore a black dress, Labor M.P. William Hamilton had pointed a taunting finger at her and inquired derisively, "Is she dressed in black because of the unemployment figures?" Now she was meticulously turned out in a tailored gray suit, a soft white bow at her neck, to face another onslaught. In her coolly accented voice, she delivered a forceful and familiar message: only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Embattled but Unbowed | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...Yamal Peninsula is a barren stretch of perpetually frozen soil that extends like an icy finger from Western Siberia about 400 miles toward the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures fall to -60° C during the nine-month-long winter, and the only inhabitants are a few Russians and Mongolian reindeer herders. During Stalin's reign of terror, the Soviet Gulag penetrated the region. Beneath tundra and scrub forests lie the world's largest untapped, proven reserves of natural gas, estimated to total 26 trillion cubic meters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Pipeline to the West | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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