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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the assassination attempt, Agca said, he, Celik and two other Turks attended a strategy meeting in Room 911 of the Hotel Vitosha in Sofia at which Malenkov was present. "(Malenkov) said, 'Have you changed your mind about killing the Pope?' I said no, and he told me the reward would be 3 million marks," Agca testified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy the Third Man | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...simply because they were men. They had hours to spend with their cronies, and no one ever expected them to clean the house. Most of the women surveyed do not want to go back, and they work to root themselves in the U.S. The price is high, but the reward is something they would find hard to achieve at home: a sense of their own autonomy. Says one successful Cuban- American businesswoman in Miami, Maria Elena Torano Pantin, "I became my own person. Not my parents' person, not my kids' person and not my husband's person. But mine." Mali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Adapting to a Different Role | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Other artisans found their reward in discovering, and helping to build, an artistic League of Nations in their new land. Casablanca, the best-loved film of the 1940s, could have served as a travel poster for this international spirit. The director, Michael Curtiz, was from Budapest; the art director, Carl Jules Weyl, from Germany; the composer, Max Steiner, from Vienna. And of the top 20 names on the cast list, only three belonged to native Americans (Humphrey Bogart, Dooley Wilson and Joy Page); the rest represented the tattered flags of Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy, the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

Jihad means holy war, and in the Shi'ite credo, to die in a holy war is to achieve martyrdom and guarantee a place in heaven. A seemingly endless supply of young Shi'ite militants seem all too eager to earn their divine reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roots of Fanaticism | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would the searchers discover that they had been duped in a giant hoax, lured into an ingeniously woven web of disinformation, implying that Mengele, a man with a $3.4 million reward on his head, might still be at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

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