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Although U.S. officials could only speculate on why the Soviets put Krasnoyarsk on display, Downey noted that a "precedent has now been set about verification that cannot be undone." Still, the field trip did not answer the real question posed by the radar: Do the Soviets intend to abide by arms- control treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And I'll Show You Mine | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Clearly, most insurers do not intend to. While honoring existing policies for AIDS sufferers, most firms are trying to limit the risk of signing up future AIDS victims -- and have thereby stirred up an outcry. Some companies have hired investigators to inquire into applicants' life-styles, presumably to discover whether prospective policyholders are homosexuals. The hottest issue: whether insurance companies have the right to test for the presence of AIDS-related antibodies in the blood of would-be policyholders. Even a positive test result is by no means a definitive sign that a person will contract AIDS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Burden Too Heavy to Bear | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...chairs and tore holes in the yellow- green carpet, left District Minister Keerthisiri Abeywickrama dead and ten people injured, including Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was sitting next to Jayewardene. Miraculously, the President escaped unharmed. Still wearing his bloodstained clothes, Jayewardene within hours delivered a nationwide radio address. "We intend to carry on our work," he said, "irrespective of the evil forces ganging up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka Narrow Escape | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Reagan will deliver a speech on the Iran-Contra affair next week, on a day still unspecified, but spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president does not intend to "go into every detail" about the testimony which was spread over three months of hearings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran-Contra Hearings Conclude | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

...hierarchy and deeply believes in the tenets of Marx and Lenin. His goal is not to scrap that system but to save it from permanent economic decline through a series of bold, pragmatic measures. As he told a gathering of editors and propagandists in Moscow on July 10: "We intend to make socialism stronger, not replace it with another system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mikhail Gorbachev Bring It Off? | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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