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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Predicting the future has never been a reliable craft, whether practiced by tea-leaf readers or political pollsters. The 1980 presidential primary season has been an especially difficult time for the latter. TIME'S national political correspondent John Stacks explains...
...aftermath of the startlingly rapid collapse of the Shah of Iran, images were evoked of a CIA shackled by an overzealous Congress--the latter being depicted as opportunistically demonstrating its "integrity" to the post-Watergate cynical American public by raking the CIA over the coals. But the "handstied CIA" explanation was seriously challenged when Jesse J. Leaf, former CIA analyst in Iran, revealed that as early as 1973 CIA operatives cautioned Washington about the vulnerability of the Shah (an act which Leaf alleges cost him his job). Furthermore, the eventual resurgence of the opposition to the Shah was predicted outside...
This movie implies that Vaslav Nijinsky, the legendary dancer, was driven into his famous madness by a combination of overwork and heterosexuality. The former, it says, was a direct result of his consuming ambition to be a choreographer. The latter came from his involvement with Romola de Pulszky, portrayed as a rather silly society girl who joins Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with the express purpose of seducing the dancer. After a number of rather tedious misunderstandings with the impresario (who is also his lover), Nijinsky indeed falls into her waiting arms; at that point his decline from...
...cuts. The credit controls leave the bulk of consumer credit--borrowing for homes, cars and other durable items--untouched. Carter will require smaller companies to report price changes to the Council on Wage and Price Stability, while he is also going to raise the standards for pay increases. The latter move may be justified, but it is hardly a blow against inflation. In addition, the Council will hire more staffers. As Alfred Kahn concedes, "the wage and price program is always a kind of marginal thing...
...edge over the Soviets in strategic nuclear war heads (a claim I thoroughly agree with), but this does not make any less accurate my own indication that the U.S. has close to 30,000 nuclear war heads overall as compared to some 20,000 held by the Soviets. This latter figure obviously includes the battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons held by the U.S. forward base systems in Europe and aboard our major war ships in several parts of the world, including the Indian Ocean. Since one of the major fears of those who take a sane look at today...