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...invasion of Afghanistan last December, but in the past week its fate has become one of the most heated and important disagreements between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Carter wants to save the treaty, Reagan wants to kill it. As TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, the issue has grave implications...
...they were choosing not out of enthusiasm, but on the basis of negative feelings. Arnold Chessler, a 48-year-old manufacturer of women's accessories in Philadelphia, voted for Carter in 1976, but concludes that the past four years "have been really depressing." Despite grave reservations, he will back Reagan because "it can't get any worse...
Even when the RDF gets fully organized, there are grave doubts about how quickly it can be moved to a trouble spot like the Persian Gulf. Says Kelley: "If you get there fustest, you're there with the mostest." But would the RDF arrive first with the most? Brown estimates that the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, which the Pentagon rates as the sharpest, most combat-ready unit in the U.S., would take several weeks to reach its destination because it lacks enough cargo planes to transport its equipment. A Marine division would take even longer to arrive...
...Forsyte book picks up where Dickens departed but omits the preceding chapters. The reader is left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood, including Antony Maitland's new illustrations, happily capturing the Master's locutions: "Curious, bland, yet deeply various gentleman...
...With such strong opposition, priests face "grave personal problems" over how to apply church teaching and discipline. The archbishop cited a 1971 survey commissioned by the U.S. bishops reporting that only 29% of U.S. priests believed that artificial contraception is always immoral. (Only 13% said they denied absolution in the confessional to couples who use forbidden methods...