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Daydreaming of freedom, one thinks of it as a clear blue light, like the frictionless intelligence of God. A sudden act: a lightning shot of electrons jumps from one still object to another and brings them both to life. Thought passes through the pure medium of freedom and accomplishes . . . creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom First | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

What remains of the monarchist dream in Disney World is a benign dictatorship of style, a triumph of art over nature. The lightning bugs in the shrubbery by Cinderella's Castle are tiny synchronized bulbs. In a 3-D short called Magic Journeys (to be replaced this September with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: If Heaven Ain't a Lot Like Disney Theme Parks | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

For several years, white-ruled South Africa has attempted to destabilize some of the black-ruled regimes along its northern borders; on several occasions its forces have made lightning raids on South African dissident groups in nearby Lesotho, Botswana and Mozambique. Last week, in the widest-ranging action yet launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa the Commando Offensive | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

David Peresky, president of Crimson Travel Service, said the chances of an American being killed in Europe in a terrorist attack were "about equal to the chance of getting struck by lightning."

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Experts: Tourists Overreacting to Terrorist Threat | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

TWA Flight 840, a Boeing 727 flying from Rome to Athens with 115 passengers and seven crew members aboard, had already begun its descent toward the Athens international airport. Twenty minutes before the plane's expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Explosion on Flight 840 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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