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Did the chillingly candid discussion of nuclear options mean that the U.S. thinks a nuclear war is winnable? "This notion has no place in our strategy," insisted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Said he: "We see nuclear weapons only as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrows amid the Olive Branches | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Washington policymakers feared that by inflicting a humiliating military defeat on its foe, Britain might wreck any chance of a broad, long-term settlement that would have to involve Argentina. Such a defeat, the U.S. believes, could also precipitate the downfall of Argentina's ruling junta, leading to political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Caught in the Fallout | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

While some observers interpret HRE's general attitude toward HTU its treatment of tenant activists as a sign that the union may have the long-term potential of swaying Harvard administrators to greater regard for tenant relations, others note that as long as the University refuses to recognize the union...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, | Title: Harvard: Enlightened Or Despotic Giant? | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York café society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 17, 1982 | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

The case has been anything but fast. In fact, the Federal Government's triple-murder charges against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald have become one of the nation's hardiest legal perennials. The saga began on a winter night at Fort Bragg, N.C., back in 1970. Military police found MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Stopped Clock | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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