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Some Americans found the Bush Administration surprisingly slow and reserved in its response. But at midweek the President finally stepped up to the White House lectern and criticized Khomeini's death sentence as "deeply offensive to the norms of civilized behavior." Bush warned that Washington would hold Iran accountable for "any actions against U.S interests." While it was the strongest statement thus far from anyone in the Government, there was little more that the Administration could do. The U.S. had no diplomatic pawns to move, nor had it ever ended the trade embargo imposed on Iran in 1979. In fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Once again the bookstore chains bent with the wind. They had suffered a direct hit earlier in the week when New York Times columnist William Safire rebuked them: "Even for ever-merging Big Publishing, below the bottom line is another line marked 'freedom.' " At midweek B. Dalton, which also owns the Barnes & Noble stores, announced that "at the urging of an overwhelming majority of its store managers and employees," it would again stock the Rushdie novel. Waldenbooks said it would stick to its policy of selling the book but not displaying it, though local managers were permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism The New Satans | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...communications company, while collecting his pay as Bush's counsel. Bush did not fire Gray, or even hold his nose. The President defended the legality and benign intent of his aide, showing the same kind of myopia toward one of his own that got Ronald Reagan in trouble. By midweek, however, Gray had resigned from the corporation and put his assets in a blind trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendship Has Limits | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...midweek, the icy blast had roared out of Alaska across western Canada and into the American Midwest. Driven by 100-m.p.h. winds and the strongest high- pressure system in North American history (barometers reached 31.85 in. of mercury), the frigid front generated mammoth snowstorms and in some areas dropped thermometer readings by as much as 70 degrees in a matter of hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Even The Eskimos Froze | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...strings behind the scenes. But last week some 6,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen appeared to have joined the revolt. In Rangoon graduates of the influential Defense Services Academy, mostly majors and lieutenant colonels, issued a statement urging formation of an interim government that would include the opposition. At midweek Saw Maung appealed to the opposition on national television to avoid splitting the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma The Armed Forces Seize Power | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

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