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Improbable as it might seem, all this geopolitical turbulence, and more, could be traced to the bizarre cruise-liner hijacking, which also resulted in the cold-blooded murder of U.S. Passenger Leon Klinghoffer, 69. Asked a senior State Department official as he surveyed the diplomatic damage: "How could four idiots fail in their mission and still cause so much trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...human terms, the most poignant new development came on Monday, when the body of Leon Klinghoffer washed ashore near the Syrian port of Tartus. The Achille Lauro was off the Syrian coast when the retired Manhattan appliance manufacturer, who was partly paralyzed by two strokes and confined to a wheelchair, had been killed and his body thrown overboard. Abbas and P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, among others, had publicly questioned whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: The Price of Success | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...proposal by Rep. Leon E. Panetta (D-Cal.) will also help young Americans interested in volunteer work. He has proposed a National Youth Volunteer Act, which would grant matching funds to local public service programs. The bill, which is currently in a house subcommittee, has received the endorsement and support of President...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Not Your Mom | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

Galapagos puts Vonnegut one more safe step beyond the complexities of good and evil. The narrator is an amiable phantom named Leon Trout, son of Kilgore Trout of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions. Leon speaks to us from the future, 1 million years after humanity is supposed to have $ extinguished itself. Among the survivors are a handful of tourists and Ecuadorian Indians on Santa Rosalia, an island in the Galapagos. It was there, in 1835, that Charles Darwin observed the variety of species that inspired his theories of natural selection. But according to Vonnegut, nature goofed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fossils Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...told. Vonnegut's retrograde evolution is a cute idea but a literary dead end. Leon allows only a misty glimpse of the sweet by-and-by. The future is not dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986, the year humanity took its first step down the evolutionary ladder. The tale is a burlesque that mixes natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fossils Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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