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The largest Christian group and the one that has dominated Lebanese politics is the Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arabs Who Look to the West | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Under construction since 1979 and now nearly four-fifths complete, the Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex (SLC 6),* dubbed "Slick Six," is a prodigious arrangement of lofty mobile towers and gaping tunnels, rugged bunkers and squat tanks, covering 150 acres.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Pad for the Space Shuttle | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

An unshaven vagrant is grubby; an unshaven Tom Selleck is rugged.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1984 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

After four years in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union's "limited contingent" of 105,000 men still seems far from winning a decisive victory over anti-Communist rebels. Moscow's forces had not previously engaged in combat outside the Soviet bloc since 1945, and from the start they appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: A One-Dimensional World Power | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

STREE'S Silkwood fits right into the dry, voidless landscape of her cheaply furnished house. Her red hair, compulsive cigarette smoking and good-natured rambunctiousness are charming, and we gradually accept her character for what she is, not what she could be if she ignored the corruption and raised her...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uncomplicated Power | 12/15/1983 | See Source »

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