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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This reasoning couldn't be more specious. When two men are pointing guns at each other, they are hardly likely to consider it defensive when one of them starts edging behind a pillar. The benefits that a "star wars" defense could bring exist only if the system is already in place and works...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Space Cadet | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...diary about her young husband David. When David Todd moved to Amherst to teach astronomy, Mabel began flirting with one of the students, Ned Dickinson. She then took up with his unhappily married father Austin, a grizzled 53, treasurer of the college, older brother of Emily Dickinson and pillar of respectability. "I love you, and I want you bitterly," Mabel wrote to Dickinson. Her husband seems to have been remarkably tolerant, and so was the genteel society of Amherst. When Dickinson died in 1895, nobody was surprised that Mabel kissed what she called "the dear body, every inch of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: We Are All Hypocrites | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...indignant voice. An international authority on commercial law, Barak offers a dazzling resume. He was, at 32, Israel's youngest full professor, at 38 its youngest Attorney General, and at 42 one of its youngest Supreme Court Justices. He is also, as the Jerusalem Post puts it, "a pillar of probity," a respected champion of individual rights, indifferent to rank and impervious to reputation. As Attorney General, in 1977 he sent to prison the government's nominee for chairman of the Bank of Israel and in 1977 forced the Minister of Finance to withdraw a plan to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Judicious Choices | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...Canadian Mounted Police officer, who remains anonymous, seemed an ideal "mole" for penetrating the Canadian security service. They wooed him assiduously. Details for secret meetings were passed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. A piece of colored tape strategically placed on a pillar in a shopping center would also signal a rendezvous. Over a nine-month period the Mountie received $30,500; then Canadian police blew the whistle. The case proved to be a classic counterespionage sting. After the Soviets tried to recruit him, the Mountie had informed his superiors, who encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...Pillar Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1982 | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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