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However sensible, those are ideas that would take a long time to implement. The near-term outlook thus remains for an odd combination of intermittent, savage but low-intensity fighting in Nicaragua and a continuing, much louder political uproar in both Central America and the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arguing About Means and Ends | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Perhaps the greatest failing of Simple Truths, though, is that it falls short of what it purports to be. Its cover describes the novel as the story of a woman who manages to expiate her past through her work with Soviet Jews. Yet Russian Jews receive little if any treatment...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Truth's Consequences | 4/15/1983 | See Source »

One of the weaknesses of the Government's approach is the tendency of the agencies involved to squabble over prerogatives and credit. Communication is sometimes only intermittent. The task will be to develop smooth relationships between, say, the rough-and-ready DEA (one in 50 agents was shot at in...

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

The major complication occurred before dawn Tuesday as Clark lay in bed in the security-guarded third-floor intensive care unit. He was chatting with Dr. William DeVries, the surgeon who had implanted the mechanical organ. Asked Clark: "How am I doing?" Replied DeVries: "Just fine." The words were hardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: And the Beat Goes On | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Western diplomats now believe that the Iranian regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini may have learned the costly lesson of its massive, suicidal assaults. In response, Iran has adopted a new strategy of long-term attrition, undertaking only intermittent and limited offensives. The question then becomes: Which government is better able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: A Costly, Bloody Stalemate | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

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