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The President had no illusion that Moscow would embrace this idea or even bargain seriously about it for many months. His real purpose was to prevent a potentially disastrous split between the U.S. and its NATO allies. Under pressure from a noisy antinuclear movement that regards the installation of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hot Nuclear Exchange | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

The euphoric effects of cocaine are well known. Heroin kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crashing on Cocaine | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Probably not tomorrow, certainly not today. In a speech just three hours after the House committee voted, Reagan said, "A freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud," creating "merely the illusion of peace." He and other opponents of an immediate freeze argue that it is a simplistic, unworkable prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Freeze Is Still Hot | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

In California, where celebrity and gauzy illusion are manufactured wholesale, a kind of fantasy come to life - the Queen of England! - was everywhere, walking on red carpets. No one cared that she looked unhip in her blue matron's outfits. Fame, especially enduring fame, is the California dream, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Queen Makes A Royal Splash | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

We have good reason to fear the KGB [Feb. 14]. As your story points out, the KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful "largely because Soviet citizens police one another." A society that reveres a child who turned in his father to the authorities is right out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1983 | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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