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...similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third extended reporting trip to El Salvador last week, also compares his experiences with Viet Nam. "In some ways," he says, "the risks here are greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 22, 1982 | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove up in a bulletproof yellow Wagoneer. Addressing the crowd, he declared: "The guerrillas are destroying us with their guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror, Right and Left | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Police with submachine guns ringed Verona's 12th century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Songs of the Pentiti | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That sound at the end is not applause, but wild ducks flapping overhead, vainly trying to find a play on which they can comfortably land. -By Gerald Clarke

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Midgets | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...Wagaboo steal the Ulam fire-the mysterious element that keeps them warm, broils their food and acts as an invader repellent. So three of the Ulam prepare to cross what will become Western Europe in search of their elusive prerequisite. Upon their departure, exotic birds soar overhead in salute. The camera eye grows misty in reverence. Philippe Sarde's heavenly choir surges into oratorio orgasm. The quest for fire has begun. And all for the want of a Bic butane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Sticks | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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