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Genuine fear pervades the city. People are asking their foreign friends not to drop by any more. The 4 a.m. knock on the door by the secret police is back in practice, although sometimes with the usual Polish twist. In at least two cases, people who were given the option of signing a loyalty oath prepared by the government or going to a detention center managed to persuade the agents who came for them to accept a more innocuously worded statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spirit Still Glows | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...land-based carnivore in the world. A full-grown male can weigh more than 1,600 Ibs. (vs. grizzlies at 1,000 Ibs. and tigers at 850 Ibs.). If the bear is determined enough, it will barge right in; few doors are much use against powerful paws that can knock out an 800-lb. seal with a single swat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plethora of Polar Bears | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...cartoons, Jules Feiffer has saucily lampooned the neurotic as thinker. In previous plays (Little Murders; Hold Me; Knock Knock), he has caricatured U.S. society as a surrealistic maze of false values. In Grownups, he simply utters a scream of pain. - By T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scar Tissue | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Trevor Berbick won a lopsided ten-round unanimous decision last night over Muhammad Ali. Berbick was content to hit Ali in the body, and never really attempted to knock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ali Floats Like Bee, Stings Like Butterfly | 12/12/1981 | See Source »

...midnight knock on the door came shortly after George Qamsiyeh noticed one day last week that his two-story house was surrounded by Israeli soldiers. Once inside, an officer impatiently read a military decree ordering his squad to demolish the house and confiscate the land. Qamsiyeh's son Walid had been arrested the night before, and had purportedly confessed to throwing molotov cocktails at an Israeli bus. At gunpoint, the father was urged to sign the order and given 90 minutes to evacuate his family and their belongings. At 2:07 a.m., a thunderous blast rocked the West Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: New Tensions on the West Bank | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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