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And so can I, claims Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer who clings like kudzu to every new conspiracy theory that sprouts in the thicket of conflicting tales. Since the others aren't talking, even his wild charges get a wide audience. He was among the first to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Con Man or Key to a Mystery? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, an amalgam of four rebel groups, advanced to within eight miles of Addis Ababa, but then seemed to heed pleas from Western diplomats not to enter the city pending negotiations scheduled for this week in London on forming a new government. The situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia: Few Tears for The Tyrant | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

One reason for hesitancy is that the Western powers are a long way from agreeing on an answer to Gorbachev's pleas for aid. Though Gorbachev has not mentioned a precise sum (he did say last week that if the West could spend $100 billion on the Persian Gulf war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Who's That Man With the Tin Cup? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

About 40 court-martial cases are at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune, the largest military installation on the East Coast. It's also home to the brig where at least 14 reservists are already doing time on guilty pleas in exchange for sentences limited to 18 months for desertion.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Marines Tried for Not Fighting | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

According to the Cult Awareness Network, whose 23 chapters monitor more than 200 "mind control" cults, no group prompts more telephone pleas for help than does Scientology. Says Cynthia Kisser, the network's Chicago-based executive director: "Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

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