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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything leads us back to More and what we're to expect from the actor who portrays him. More has to garner the respect and then murderous wrath of a king, he has to deserve the devotion of his loved ones, and he has to spiritually prevail over the evil...

Author: By Rebeera J. Joseph, | Title: More Is Less | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

...circumstances is evil, and that a deterrent strategy that even threatens to use them is also evil. Led by their activist president, Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, the bishops will meet in November to issue a new declaration that could endorse a bilateral freeze, unless moderates like Terence Cardinal Cooke prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics Take to the Ramparts | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

EDWARD TELLER, "father" of the hydrogen bomb and a Reagan Administration science adviser: I hope [the nuclear-freeze movement] will not become an important force. I hope more sense will prevail. If the nuclear freeze goes through, this country won't exist in 1990. The Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For and Against a Freeze | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...political opponents and start sharing power more widely and genuinely. Costa Rica's Monge believes that there are young officers in the Guatemalan army who realize that their country has to be more democratic to survive. Monge's advice to the U.S.: identify with those elements and help them prevail. > In Nicaragua the Sandinistas are unquestionably oriented toward Cuba and the Soviet bloc in foreign policy and are heading toward one-party, totalitarian rule at home. But the U.S. can still work to modify that government's behavior. The Administration should immediately soften its tone, thereby giving the Sandinistas fewer...

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

Sontag, in other words, is correct in what she says But there is a lot left unsaid Which is a far cry from saying that there aren't sides to be taken it is entirely likely that El Salvador, should the revolution prevail, will be ruled by a L. Leninist party (especially if the U.S. continues its carefully concerted plan to drive the rebels into the arms of Moscow). Still Sontag says she "passionately supports" their cause, and so should the rest of us. Sandinista Nicaragua is no waystation on the road to nirvana: still and all, there are considerably...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reminder, Not Revelation | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

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