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...worked out before the document is signed, including which language will be used over the hot line. But, cautions one Washington aviation official, the proposed communications link will work only if it is used, and there is no guarantee that the Soviets will use it. AFGHANISTAN The Soviets' "Bloody Nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Aug. 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...helicopter gunships, that have been flowing into the base over the past two months. Said one leader of the guerrillas who are known as the mujahedin: "We were not going to let the Russians get in all these new troops and helicopters without giving them a bloody nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Aug. 12, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...first there were varying explanations for the small scab on the right side of the President's nose. It was described by White House Spokesman Larry Speakes as the result of "skin irritation, a gathering of skin, a piling up of skin," possibly aggravated by "an allergic reaction" to adhesive tape that had held a naso-gastric tube in place following Reagan's surgery last month for colon cancer. Actually, it was a bit more than that, as the President himself finally admitted. "I had, well, I guess for want of a better word, a pimple," he explained last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Treating Reagan's Pimple | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...outlay reached its peak in the third year of the Reagan Administration. Probably never in U.S. history had so much been spent on caterers, limousines and designer gowns in pursuit of influence. There also was a great self-beautification movement. "When you go out now you barely see a nose you know," says McLellan. "They are deeply concerned with their exteriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Affluence in Pursuit of Influence | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...paper, rolled the cigarette, lit it. Then he leaned over the bar and, in a soft voice, recited an old Bruce Kiskaddon verse about the dangers of an enraged cow: "Think a cow boy cain't run? Well you aint seen one sail/ When a cow blows her nose on some waddy's shirt tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Cowboy Poets | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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