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Lorenzo defended his strategy, saying that the airline's union contracts were "vestiges of another era." He added that the bankruptcy maneuver would create for Continental the "opportunity to compete in a very challenging and potentially rewarding marketplace." Lorenzo called the airline the "New Continental" and said it aimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter, Deadly Dogfights | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

The so-called pacification law was the third attempt by the military to impose national amnesia. Last November it disingenuously urged Argentines to show "greatness of spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Self-Amnesty | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Coming in low from the south across the sluggish Chari River, four Mirage fighters peeled off and soared upward to gain height for their final approach to the airport at N'Djamena, the Chadian capital. A few minutes later four Jaguar fighter-bombers repeated the maneuver. By the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: Desert Standoff | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Some U.S. diplomats are convinced that Mitterrand's strategy is to give himself some negotiating flexibility by decrying the American "pressure" even as he sends in troops to check the Libyan advance. It is altogether possible that the tactic is working. Gaddafi last week gave Mitterrand the benefit of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chad: France Draws the Line | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

The hulk, leaking oil at a rate of about one ton an hour, posed a danger to the dozens of ships that round the cape every day. In a daring maneuver, a private helicopter, with air force planes monitoring the situation, lowered two divers onto the wreck to attach a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: The Day the Ocean Caught Fire | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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