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...ally, Pakistan, as well as vital American interests in the Persian Gulf, is jeopardized as a result. The Soviets claim the right to have "fraternal" relations with Fidel Castro, whose rule they underwrite to the tune of about $11 million a day, but they accept no responsibility for his mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement in the Middle East, while they continue to back the most radical Arab enemies of Israel. In Western Europe, they are trying, by a combination of political blandishment and military blackmail, to diminish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: Both Continuity and Vitality | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...retains a faint similarity to English but is actually closer to Latin. Like Latin, it is primarily a written language, prized for its incantatory powers, and is best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm report is awesome. The first reference to seasonal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Journalese for the Lay Reader | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Polyakov. These meetings consist primarily of dry recitations of each side's views on central issues. The U.S. agenda for the Middle East meeting, aside from the Arab-Israeli conflict, will probably include the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq conflict and Libya's mischief making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Bids in the Middle East | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...defense," he said, and "totally consistent" with the charters of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The President seemed to be building a legal case for Washington's continued use of covert--and maybe even overt--aid in conflicts that it deems the result of Soviet mischief-making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Get Started | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...gang movie set in Los Angeles, plays like the Beat It video at feature length. Fandango sends five college guys on a West Texas spree. Heaven Help Us has five Roman Catholic schoolboys getting cute in the confessional and decapitating a statue of their school's patron saint. Mischief pairs a wimp and a stud in the small-town '50s. In Tomboy, Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling mat. One can find vagrant felicities in these films: a snap to the style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is There Life After Teenpix? | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

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