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...dead, in a refugee camp in the small northern Ethiopian town of Bati, more than 25,000 starving people huddled together last week. Some 210 miles away there was a similar scene of destitution around the 9,000 famished people who crowded into the Quiha camp. Shrouded in a pall of woodsmoke, their new home looked like a medieval battlefield. The parched, scabrous earth was pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind. The lucky ones had a branch to cover their dugout; others remained exposed to the elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: The Land of the Dead | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...received that verdict was the picture of joy Tuesday, though there was one slight pall. His wife Nancy was still suffering dizziness after a fall Sunday night at a hotel in Sacramento. She joined the President on a helicopter trip to vote in Solvang, Calif., but tottered as they left the polling place. Then her knees buckled as she climbed down the helicopter steps in Santa Monica on the way back to Los Angeles; Reagan and a Secret Service agent grabbed her arm to keep her from falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '84: The Promise: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...RISK of casting an even greater pall over the Democratic Party than currently exists, the Reagan landslide is symptomatic of much more than a temporary nationwide shift to the right and a recent disenchantment with New Deal liberalism...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Beyond the Pall | 11/14/1984 | See Source »

...showrooms around the U.S. last week, dealers were gloomy about the chance of losing their bestselling models and the prospect of a national walkout. "A strike puts a pall on the entire industry, not just GM," said Ronald Kelly, a Ford dealer in Stamford, Conn. After the tough years of the late 1970s and early 1980s, dealers once again face a sales slump. Those with low inventory are especially worried. Said Clara Benjamin, co-owner of Bay Chevrolet in Queens, N.Y.: "A strike is going to affect us very badly. We will be laying off help if this turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showdown at General Motors | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...Sandinistas as "not a political vacuum, but the air is being sucked out." Yet he also warned that "their decline is not yet marked by the rise of anyone else's fortunes." Under those conditions, the Sandinistas will probably remain in power for the foreseeable future, but the pall of gloom over Nicaragua is likely to grow deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Gloom but Not Yet Doom | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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