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For more than a fortnight, his homeland had been torn by violent protest against its Chinese occupiers. Now, from his place of exile in Dharmsala, the Himalayan hill town in northern India where he has lived for most of the past 28 years, the Dalai Lama spoke. The spiritual leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Fire in a Snowy Land | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

For Gamini Dissanayake, a senior minister in President Jayewardene's government, the peace agreement merely "amounts to a recognition that we are living next door to a very powerful and complex country." The pact must still be ratified by Sri Lanka's Parliament, currently in recess. Dissanayake predicts that Jayewardene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka Peace Flexes Its Muscle | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

The textbook on political-damage control requires the candidate's wife to fly immediately to comfort her beleaguered husband. But for three long days Lee Hart remained silent in the house in Colorado, as campaign officials relayed word that she was suffering from a sinus infection. Political insiders regarded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Two comely females on Kennedy's office staff, part of the traveling entourage also, were known to get calls at unusual hours to report to the President for work. Some of those requests included transcontinental flights on Air Force planes. Since the women did not have highly developed secretarial skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Upstairs at the White House | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

The finger pointing was inflamed by the conflicting reports surrounding Linder's death. Eyewitness accounts reaching both Managua and the U.S. suggested that Linder and some government workers were measuring the water flow of a stream in a northern village when a band of contras struck. The contras claim that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua The Sad Saga of a Sandalista | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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