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...last two people in the U.S. to be jailed for refusing to answer the question, Are you a communist?; in Los Angeles. In the early '50s, at a hearing for an innovative low-income, racially integrated housing project?one viewed with suspicion by the city's business leaders???an official asked for a list of his affiliations. After refusing to answer, and later doing the same before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he was fired, spent nine months in jail and later co-founded the pro-dissent First Amendment Foundation...
...opposition parties in West Germany and Great Britain?which, in the nature of democratic politics, can be expected to get into office eventually?are advocating policies that amount to unilateral nuclear disarmament for their countries. Because these groups hold sway over key segments of public opinion, too many European leaders???even conservative ones?have yielded to the temptation to demonstrate their peaceful intentions the easy way, by pretending to be reining in a bellicose and insensitive U.S. through their ministrations. As a result, among those who shape public attitudes?and thereby set what become the limits of the politically possible?...
...sides fear. The deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations to that frozen impasse overshadowed all other events of 1983. In shaping plans for the future, every statesman in the world and very nearly every private citizen has to calculate what may come of the face-off between the countries whose leaders???one operating in full public view, the other as a mysterious presence hidden by illness?share the power to decide whether there will be any future at all. Those leaders, Presidents Ronald Wilson Reagan of the United States and Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...organizations?and their leaders???exemplify the passions and concerns of the nuclear-freeze movement...
...having a positive impact upon society and who might play pivotal roles in the nation's future. Today, the issue of leadership is more acute than ever. As Jimmy Carter struggles to rally a nation troubled by recession, inflation and the energy shortage, TIME again examines the problems of leaders???and followers. In these pages, an introductory essay analyzes the state of the art that Harry Truman defined as "the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do, and like it." In succeeding stories 24 prominent Americans select the leaders now living who they believe...