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ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD and militarily defensive, China last week returned to the American consciousness. With United Status Secretary of State George Studtz's visit, questions of how to approach Sinc-American relations surfaced as well. Is China the next great frontier for American enterprise, a weapon to wield against the Soviets, or communist threat to be deflected it may instead be of less consequence than supporters or opponents assume...

Author: By Douglas S. Selin, | Title: The China Hype | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

That state reached a new height last week as the Nicaraguans watched Operation Big Pine taking place across the border. Claiming that Big Pine was the prelude to a major U.S.-backed invasion of Nicaragua, the Sandinista government called a full-scale alert in five frontier provinces. Green-uniformed guardsmen scanned border outposts for signs of more incursions of the kind that occurred at Bismuna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: The Rising Tides of War | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Alan Foster, 35, and his wife Vickie, 29, live with their three children in Campamento Chimora, a frontier settlement hacked out of Bolivia's hellish rain forest. Foster, whose father was an evangelist, was sent by the New Tribes Mission to work with the Yuqui Indians. He is about to join a "contact team" that hopes to find three elusive Yuqui groups deep in the jungle. Such teams are often attacked by the tribesmen they are trying to reach. But for all the dangers of their task, the Fosters have developed a close rapport with Indians at the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...this, her only novel, Porter overreached herself. She possessed neither the scholarship nor the profundity to write a fable of the decline of the Western world. But as a short-story writer, she achieved the violent grace of a folk ballad. Something atavistic, something frontier-Texan came out in her. The sentences cut, like the wife's knife stabbing her husband's lover in "Maria Concepcion," like the farmer's ax splitting the head of his tormentor in "Noon Wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folk Ballads | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Fleming (6-ft 3-inches tall.235 pounds) has spent his last seven summer vacations working on rodeo grounds, helping prepare for Cheyenne Frontier Days, an annual festival during the last week of July that Fleming, compares with New Orleans' Mardi Gras...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Pat Fleming and Joe Margolis | 11/19/1982 | See Source »

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