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...couple of years after the family settled in Miami, Jesse enrolled at the Jack Nelson Swim Camp for a summer. Jesse's progress there convinced his father that the up-and-coming swimmer needed a more ambitious program...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: A Fast Trip to the Top | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...environmentalists have roared back, warning of ecological nightmares. "This is the first time in my memory," says former Senator Gaylord Nelson, who now lobbies for the Wilderness Society, "that the country's chief conservation officer has been an antienvironmentalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zealous Lord of a Vast Domain | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Reagan's final Executive order will be less restrictive than Carter's, but more protective of American freedoms than last week's draft proposal. Interestingly enough, Ronald Reagan, then a private citizen and former Governor, was a member of the presidential commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in 1975 that recommended many of the present restrictions. The commission's conclusion: "Presidents should refrain from directing the CIA to perform what are essentially internal security tasks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freeing the CIA | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...University last week finally won a complete victory in the protracted, bitter fight when the two tenants remaining in the building--Sherwin Cooper and Carol Nelson--both decided to move out voluntarily...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The End of the Battle | 3/20/1981 | See Source »

...seaworthy. The navy's futility is proved by how poorly it patrols the waters between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the route by which many arms shipments are smuggled to the guerrillas. When asked how many shipments the navy halted this year and last, Salvadoran Coast Guard Officer Nelson Angulo formed a circle with two fingers and said simply, "Zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supply Line for a Junta | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

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