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...festival, the $6 million ship built for Roman Polanski's Pirates stood gallantly in the Cannes harbor, a toy boat of CinemaScope dimensions. On the day after the festival ended, it was joined by a bigger ship: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America from the Sixth Fleet, fresh from its raid on Libya. The circus has left town, and real- life Rambos have arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Celebration of Reel Life | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...deal by Washington's powerful pro-Israeli lobby. Even so, many lawmakers were fearful of supporting a measure that might offend Jewish voters in an election year and wanted to punish the Saudis for what legislators view as unfriendly acts, including muted criticism of the U.S. for its bombing raid on Libya. Said California Democrat Alan Cranston, who led the campaign in the Senate against the missile sale: "We should send the Saudis a signal that our friendship entails certain minimal obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stinging Rebuff for the Saudis | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Goizueta's second major Hollywood raid came last August with the $485 million buy-out of Embassy Communications and Tandem Productions. Embassy currently has five shows on the air, including Diff'rent Strokes, Silver Spoons and ABC television's surprise hit, Who's the Boss? More important, Embassy, which was formerly owned by Producers Norman Lear and Jerrold Perenchio, holds syndication rights to such shows as Maude, Sanford & Son, One Day at a Time and The Jeffersons. Mike Mellon, a vice president of research for Walt Disney Productions, estimates the value of Embassy's rights at $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fizz, Movies and Whoop-De-Do | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...second armed government operation at the temple since the June 1984 army assault in which hundreds of Sikhs, including the extremist leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, were slain. That bloody raid provoked widespread Sikh outrage and eventually led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her Sikh bodyguards. By contrast, last week only one person was killed and two were injured. Moreover, this time many moderate Sikhs seemed to accept the well-planned raid as a necessary move to stem the increasing violence that has racked the northern Indian state of Punjab over the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Deliverance | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Police commandos captured 300 suspected separatists at the Golden Temple. Unfortunately, they did not include any members of the five-man committee that issued the seditious call to arms. They had slipped out of the temple before the raid and escaped. Later, extremists retaliated by killing seven people in terrorist attacks. Still, the forced abandonment of the holy shrine was a humiliating defeat for the extremists. Said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "We will not allow the voice of fanaticism to be raised and will make every effort to stop such fanatics from disintegrating the nation." The operation marked a political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Deliverance | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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