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...recallable bombers and control aircraft into the air, and a series of conferences is held. "Routine" missile display conferences are held whenever U.S. satellites or radars are changed because these changes can upset the computer system. Missile display conferences are also held whenever there is uncertainty about how to interpret the computer displays...
...number of fierce advocates surround Ronald Reagan these days, all determined to carry out last November's election mandate. Each seems, however, to interpret the mandate as his very own, as an individual summons to overhaul his special part of the System. No one is more zealous than James Watt, 43, the lanky, brusque Secretary of the Interior. His soft voice and thick glasses make him seem a little like a benign mortician, but that could be misleading. For Jim Watt has all the self-righteous conviction of the born-again Christian that he is, and his goal...
Regardless of how they interpret the political motivation behind the impending cuts. Harvard educators agreed that the reductions signal a long-term trend of government withdrawal from supporting universities...
National Editor John Elson, who edited last year's special issue on the Soviet Union, was in charge of TIME'S American Renewal effort. Says he: "TIME has always tried to interpret the news as well as report it. This week we are going one step further-we are offering some possible solutions to the difficulties the nation faces." For his story on U.S. political institutions, Senior Writer Otto Friedrich returned to many of the themes explored in TIME'S 1976 Bicentennial issue, which he edited. "Defining the changing role and the ultimate power of the Congress...
THOSE WHO INTERPRET this movie as glorifying mercenaries have missed the point, but their confusion underscores one other theme. Mercenary swagger, the strut of a man loaded down with a gun and with the realization that he is running through the night toward his own death, is very close, almost identical, to the swagger of a revolutionary. Both are tough men; both live too near death to allow for love and compassion, unless it is the kind of love that takes half an hour. When Americans talk about "those barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess...