Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When TIME Correspondent James Willwerth went to Mexico City in the fall of 1980, he anticipated a fairly quiet tour of duty. Says he: "I foresaw a few stories about the Mexican oil boom, an occasional look at Nicaragua's revolution, and a side trip or two to report on Mayan ruins." He was wrong. "I had been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen...
President Bok was out of town this week and Mass Hall staffers were keeping quiet about his whereabouts. Several high level administrators said the trip was a mixture of business and vacation but would not comment further except to say "there is some sun involved...
Looking for some peace and quiet? Cross Boca Ciega Bay to St. Petersburg Beach, take a left at the Don Cesar hotel (the big pink thing) and drive about four miles down Pass-A-Grille Way. There on your left, is The Seadrift. Break through the cobwebs and walk inside Look empty? It should. They haven't had a paying customer in months. The pinball machines are the old pachinko kind, the beer on tap is Rheingold, and the walls are decorated with old Washington Senators pennants. If you've had enought of tourists no, make that any kind...
Your article left out one of the most important aspects of after-30 pregnancies. Those cute pink infants will become children. Having had babies when I was 24, 27, 37 and 41, I can tell those blooming ladies that it is hard to enjoy a quiet menopause while being a Brownie leader and handing out ribbons at the track meet. If one more person says, "But they've kept you so young!" I will hit him with a support sock...
...cold war." Now detractors of linkage not only adopted the theory, "they went us one better." Says Kissinger: "They linked most-favored-nation status for the Soviet Union not only with Soviet foreign-policy conduct but with Soviet emigration practices. During Nixon's first term we had, by quiet diplomacy, raised Jewish emigration from 400 a year in 1968 to 35,000 by 1973, and we had obtained a Soviet promise to increase the figure to 45,000. Senator Jackson, acting like a man who, having won once at roulette, organizes his yearly budget in anticipation of a recurrence...