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Minority Turks set up a separate state, but hint at compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: The Reversible Republic | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...last year. Moreover, the Dallas-based firm knew things might continue getting worse because it lacks the financial and marketing clout to compete effectively against the soft-drink industry's giants: Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion) and highly diversified PepsiCo (1982 sales: $7.5 billion). So, taking a hint from one of its old commercials, Dr Pepper has been looking for a friendly pepper-upper. Last week the company found one. Dr Pepper agreed to be acquired for $512.5 million by Forstmann Little & Co., a closely held New York investment firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swallowed Up | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...computers to miniature automated factories, it is a major advance over Skylab, the U.S.'s first scientific work station in orbit, which was occupied by three successive teams of astronauts in the early 1970s. Spacelab is also considerably more sophisticated than the current Salyut 7, which the Soviets hint may be the first building block of a larger orbital station. Spacelab's uniqueness lies in the versatility of its three major components: 1) two cylindrically shaped laboratories, where the earthlike atmosphere will permit astronaut-scientists to work in shirtsleeves; 2) five external platforms, or "pallets," on which various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Giant Workshop in the Sky | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

Note the phrase "down-and-out nations of the world"--you'd think the IMF was talking about a global Great Society Program. The words lack even the slightest hint that the member nations of the IMF have anything to do with the disastrous economic conditions of the rest of the world...

Author: By Errol T. Louis s, | Title: Hunger on Hold | 11/18/1983 | See Source »

...York Times, remembers being one of days 30 correspondents briefed by General Eisenhower a full ten days be fore the Allied invasion of Sicily. Ike outlined in detail which divisions would land where so that the press could follow the campaign intelligently. Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which proved to be one of the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Haunted by History | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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