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Since the Iranians appear to be unrelenting, the U.S. may soon have to consider taking the "other actions" that Carter warned about in his announcement, but the options are limited and none is promising. The Pentagon has ruled out any attempt to make a lightning rescue strike on the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Finally, Fire in His Eye | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Rats, Lightning and Terrors of Childhood

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Watergate's Sphinx Speaks | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Streaked by lightning, a black and white plume soared high above the cloud cover around the peak. Scientists who rushed to the mountain discovered that a crater 200 ft. wide by 250 ft. long had opened near the mountain's northern crest. Three hundred loggers working on the slopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Will She Spit Thunder Eggs? | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

Martin Luther was the lightning of the Protestant Reformation; John Calvin was its thunder. John was only eight in 1517 when the 95 theses were nailed up on a Wittenberg church door. Within 30 years he would rise to succeed Luther as leader of the Reformation, codifying what the master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Prophet | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

Still, the mockery of TV weathercasters is probably inevitable. The art form is an original, without ancestors; it is bound now and then to be a sort of satire upon itself. Every night on millions of TV screens, the breezy wizards conjure hieratically with nature. They prophesy. Warm and cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Wonderful Art of Weathercasting | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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