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Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Dorm Crew Blues | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued statements calling the fighting a "regrettable incident." Nonetheless, at the funeral of the dead Amal militiamen, hundreds of young Shi'ites chanted an ominous refrain: "Death to the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Stepchildren of a Nightmare | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...examination of pornography and discusses the need for a moral compass in society. "We all agree that some degree of individual choice is necessary in any free society, and we all agree that a society with no shared values, including moral values, is no society at all." While they refrain from seeking to impose their view by legislation, the commissioners make clear what they feel about sex outside the framework of love and marriage: "Although there are many members of this society who can and have made affirmative cases for uncommitted sexuality, none of us believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Busters | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing Hookey | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...perhaps as many as 50,000 followers, including some members of Nicaragua's "base communities," mostly poor, urban religious groups without priests. The breakaways find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says the Rev. Miguel Angel Casco, co-director of a pro-government religious think tank. "The revolution cannot make the new man without the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua a Cardinal Under Fire | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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