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...events. By any standard, however, last weekend's Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Reykjavik posed a challenge. It was a big story, of course, big enough for TIME to send eight reporters and five photographers to Iceland. The meeting, moreover, was set to conclude early Sunday afternoon, well past the hour that TIME's presses normally start to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...seemed for a while, of producing the most sweeping arms control agreement in the history of the nuclear age. The most dramatic proposal was to slash in half the long-range nuclear missiles in the arsenals of the superpowers and eventually eliminate them altogether. Until a half-hour before the meeting broke up on Sunday evening, virtually all the pieces seemed to be in place. Yet in the end, the Iceland summit broke down over a single word: laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunk by Star Wars | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...smoked lamb and skyr, which is said to taste like honey-flavored yogurt). Outside the press center, half a dozen honey-colored Icelandic ponies pranced in a light rain while their blue-blazered riders carried U.S., Soviet and Icelandic flags on long poles. The government also arranged a three-hour fishing excursion and a free dinner at the country's largest disco, Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reykjavik Summit: T shirts, Teacups and Togas | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...offered no evidence, Assad broached his own elaborate theory of an Israeli plot in the London El Al incident. Assad, 56, who suffered a serious heart ailment three years ago, appeared in sound health and full of confidence; no question, he said, would embarrass him. During a four-hour conversation, his words on terrorism and regional tensions were occasionally leavened by banter. At one point, in discussing Soviet-U.S. relations, Assad suggested that only an extraterrestrial power could make peace between the superpowers. He then went on, unexpectedly, to speak of his long-standing interest in UFOs, or unidentified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Hafez Assad | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...opened last week in New York City. But he seems to be especially fond of his Video Arts projects, for which he turns out many of the scripts. He and his staff research each subject by interviewing business people. "It is infinitely harder," says he, "than writing half an hour for television, and much more interesting." And apparently more fulfilling. Explains Cleese: "I always felt that if I appeared at the pearly gates and was asked, 'What were you?' and I said, 'A comic,' there would be a long pause. Now I'll be able to say, 'But I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monty Python in the Boardroom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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