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...price could be a huge increase in power for Le Pen's National Front. It has only one parliamentary seat now, but if last week's voting pattern were repeated under full proportional representation, it would rocket up to 77 seats (out of 577). A onetime student thug in the Latin Quarter who lost an eye in a street brawl, and an ex-paratrooper who interrogated prisoners in Algiers (he denies having tortured them), Le Pen tries these days to project a more moderate personal image. He dresses in dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Splintering Influence | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from Soviet units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy Massacre in Khojaly | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...spiral of violence might end, Jerusalem maintained repeatedly from the start that its attacking forces were limited in number and that their mission would be short. On Friday the . troops were pulled back to the security zone, but officials promised they would return if Hizballah did not halt its rocket attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vengeance Is Mine | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...cool state-of-the-art watch; the woman has a short, stylish haircut and is wearing only a bath towel. Here is a cover which is not afraid to face the future. On the back of the book, we read that "Adam Strade made [the heroine] tingle like a rocket seconds before ignition...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...rest as easily as those whose children took up curling. The heart-pounding Alpine sport -- to be introduced at the Games this year as a demonstration event -- is skiing's equivalent of drag racing: no turns, no brakes. Gleaming in aerodynamic suits and Darth Vader-like helmets, the skiers rocket down a steep, hard-packed 1.08-mile course at 120 m.p.h. or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Cutting Edges | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

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