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...into action, opposition candidates took to the hustings to mount fiery attacks of their own. Before a half-filled house at Glasgow's cavernous Apollo Theater, Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, 69, lashed out at the Prime Minister's economic policies. "Thatcherism is the most appalling economic mess in generations!" he shouted. "The industrial destruction she has inflicted upon this country is even worse than Hitler's bombings." Campaigning in the economically depressed West Midlands, Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Healey discovered a mechanical crab at a street market and held it up before TV cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Oof! Pow! Bam! Thwack! | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...military intervention is no game for the squeamish. If Democrats are scared to take a stand against interventionism in Central America, then they should give Reagan whatever he wants and let him accept the consequences. "Compromises" just prolong the violence, raising the death toll and possibly leaving a mess for a Democratic president to clean up. Sooner or later, someone has to take the heat for pulling out of E1 Salvador and Nicaragua, and Democrats should have learned by now that decisions like this cannot be postponed forever...

Author: By David V. Thottungal, | Title: Playing to Win | 5/20/1983 | See Source »

...York by Koch under his microscope, photocopied and enlarged the words, and concluded that the books were forgeries. When he told this to Koch, Rendell says, "he was absolutely devastated." At week's end Rendell said that his sole interest was to pursue his theories about how "this mess," as he called it, had been created. He predicted teasingly and without explanation: "There is potentially a twist to this whole thing that no one can imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitler's Forged Diaries | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...would try to make a literary One Million Years, B.C.). Inventing almost completely an exotic and complex world so far removed from modern consciousness would provide the necessary feat of imagination to fill out Mailer's corpus. Nothing less than this sort of overweening ambition could have caused the mess of Ancient Evenings...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Ancient Flatulence | 5/12/1983 | See Source »

...came too little too late. That's one of the reasons we're still in this mess. We needed more economic aid early on, and we needed the military aid the President asked for last year at the time he asked for it. We lost momentum. When Congress turns down presidential requests for aid, it encourages the guerrillas to keep fighting. It also discourages the Salvadoran army. The guerrillas think Washington is where they're going to win the war. They know damn well they're not going to win it here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Ain't Viet Nam | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

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