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...than an earthling circa 1983. The victims here are denizens of New York's underground-zombies of the spirit, existing on quick fixes of drugs and sex-for whom death is just the ultimate high. This kinky, doggedly erratic comedy was made in the city by Soviet Émigré Slava Tsukerman in a style that suggests a head-shop fire sale: garishly painted faces, a closeup of a heroin needle doing its dirty work, clever special effects computerized colors bright as an acic dream. Liquid Sky, now playing tc packed houses in a small Manhattan theater...
...charging that the KGB ordered the papal assassination. TIME has also learned that Mantarov did not have diplomatic status at the Bulgarian embassy; he was, in fact, a technician attached to the commercial section. And at least one important detail in the Times story may be wrong: Bulgarian émigrés living in Paris insist that Mantarov defected on April 11, 1981, not the following July. If the earlier date is correct, Mantarov would have defected before the assassination attempt. The timing is crucial, since Mantarov then could have told French authorities about the plot before the attempt took...
...broadsides delivered by the local Irish Republican Committee encouraging anti-British protesters to confront the Queen. At the Davies Symphony Hall's morning entertainment (which included, à la campy Carmen Miranda, two women with hats bearing huge models of downtown London and San Francisco), an Ulster émigré named Seamus Gibney screamed, "Stop the torture!" He was hauled out, Mary Martin calmly finished singing Getting to Know You, and the Queen's press secretary said he thought Gibney had only coughed...
...cover story on the shadowy secret service that nurtured the Soviet Union's new leader, Yuri Andropov, TIME correspondents employed their own resourceful information-gathering techniques. In a dozen capitals, they pieced together anecdotes and insights from intelligence agents, diplomats, academic specialists and members of the Russian émigré community. In London, TIME'S Frank Melville met with Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, a former KGB major. Washington Correspondent Christopher Redman talked with past and present members of U.S. intelligence and found them wary about revealing too much knowledge of KGB operations, lest it tip off Soviet spies...
...bureau last fall, he served for 3½ years as bureau chief in Johannesburg, a base from which he covered the painful birth of Zimbabwe as a nation. While he traced the subtle web of oppression in Argentine life, McWhirter's most poignant revelations came from Jewish émigrés who survived Nazi concentration camps only to have relatives join "the disappeared ones," the term for those who vanish into the prisons and torture chambers of the state security police. Says McWhirter: "As they relived the storm warnings of their own trauma in Nazi Germany, it was again...