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The daydreamer dreams of miracles, dreams that the impossible will somehow turn out not to be impossible. The Man of La Mancha is one of his heroes; so are Walter Mitty and the would-be outfielder in Damn Yankees. In more religious times, mysterious alterations of the usual suggested divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Hope Sprouts Eternal | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

When Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, 67, was abruptly removed as Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister last September, it was widely assumed that he had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin. The first official indication of his new standing came in an obituary for Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: How the Mighty Fall | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

His khaki uniform, decorated with rows of multicolored ribbons, always set him apart from other members of the Politburo at Kremlin receptions. With the notable exception of Leonid Brezhnev, no one else in that select group could have boasted, as he could, of being a marshal of the Soviet armed...

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

Only a few hundred yards away, the marchers encountered a line of policemen stretched single file across the street. Undeterred, Walesa, Lis, about 100 supporters and some foreign newsmen elbowed their way through. Regrouping, the police kept the main body of the demonstrators from advancing. A little farther down the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: An Ominous Tremor in Gdansk | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

These days it takes a botched or otherwise unusual execution to grab public attention. Executions have become so frequent they are usually relegated to a couple of column inches on the inside pages of morning newspapers. From the end of the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Out of Appeals | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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