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...departure added to a sense of uncertainty in the Soviet military. With arms negotiations on hold, the Kremlin has seemed baffled about how to react to the defense policies of the West, particularly to those of the Reagan Administration. The abrupt transfer of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov from his post as chief of the general staff last September suggested that the leadership was divided over nuclear and conventional strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Civilian Soldier Fades Away | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...should not fly. Its stubby wings angle forward, putting them under immense stress. Indeed, it is so unstable that no pilot can react fast enough to keep it from dropping out of the sky. Yet the X-29A flew precisely as planned last Friday in its first test flight from California's Edwards Air Force Base. Pilot Chuck Sewell kept the X-29A aloft at 15,000 ft. for nearly an hour, maintaining a relatively slow speed of 270 m.p.h. His secret: three built-in computers checked all flight-control surfaces 40 times a second, automatically making adjustments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winging It Backwards | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...student, and proctors react favorably to the program, Moses added, the committee could implement the full plan in the fall...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: FDO, Council Will Try Out New Freshman Advising Plan | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

...overwhelming number of accidents. More than half of the 10,000 people who were killed by handguns in 1983 were shot by relatives, friends, or acquaintances, according to the FBI. If a policeman were to transgress the rights of a homeowner in trying to enforce restrictions, the NRA would react like a whip, further polarizing the two factions and forcing an understanding or a solution back out the door. Since the communities are test cases, vulnerable to attack in a way that federal restrictions would not be once implemented, the Coalition's plan is a high risk venture...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Taking Aim | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

Delaney Smith was understandably ecstatic. "I've been waiting to see how the freshmen would react to a game, and I am so pleasantly surprised...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Women Cagers Open Year By Trouncing Assumption | 11/21/1984 | See Source »

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