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...hearing from nearly every Israeli is that their country still needs more financial aid from the U.S. in addition to the $280 million President Carter seems ready to add to the $1.5 billion previously approved by former President Ford. Israel would also like speedy delivery of the extraordinarily lethal CBU-72 concussion bombs that Ford had promised; delivery is now in doubt because Carter has asked the State Department and Pentagon "to analyze the political and military consequences of the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Time to Meet the Players | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...average; but the man-slaughtering first mate, Otto Lassiter, is one of nature's full-rigged monsters. The mate is more than a Caliban thrown in by the author for dramatic effect; as Hayden makes clear, such men were indeed sought out by captains, and prized for their lethal efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cruel Sea | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...conscious and bounces them back up to the station to haunt the inhabitants and drive them to suicide. Not long after his arrival, Kelvin receives a spectral visitor of his own: his exwife, who killed herself back on earth years before. Kelvin is immediately smitten by a lethal mixture of love and guilt, and his mission - and the fate of the space station - is imperiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spaced Out | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Take Renee Richards. Karl Marx thought you needed a hammer and sickle to work material changes on "objective conditions," but Renee has proven that a less than lethal dosage of gonadotrophins and a stainless steel blade can do the trick just as nicely. With a single stroke, she revolutionized tennis. Which only goes to show that professional wrestling is the greatest sport on earth...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Trans-Sexual Athletes: Battle of the Chromosomes? | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

...Massachusetts know, through bitter experience, that government intrusion is more lethal than a loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 6, 1976 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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