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The anonymous sailors of Stars & Stripes, well-educated men slaving for $75 a week, have a telling phrase for what they do. They speak of their "commitment to the commitment." During the races few words are ever necessary, and those are gently spoken. But in practice runs the banter is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For the America's Cup | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

A hospice worker lets in a stream of women and old men. The young men must wait until 5 p.m., and the crowd of more than 200 are asked to form four rows behind a yellow line and watch their language. It seems an impossible task. A trembling man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Descent into Hell | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

When thousands of demonstrators set out in Manila last week to march on Malacanang Palace, the office of President Corazon Aquino, the police took standard precautions. To contain the roisterous crowd, which chanted demands for immediate land reform, 500 riot policemen equipped with truncheons and metal shields lined up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Death In Manila | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

As he packed for the trip home, Olebogeng looked around his dorm room, an 18-ft.-sq. space, lit by a single bulb, which he shares with 19 others. A coal-burning stove provides the only heat in winter and helps dry the rows of fetid clothes that hang on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Back Home for the Holidays | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

The thin, slightly stooped figure shuffled inside a cordon of burly bodyguards to take the witness chair in Room 2118 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Staring down at him from their two rows of seats, the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee itched to ask their questions. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plumbing the Cia's Shadowy Role | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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