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...Iran traffic is far beyond the rumor stage. TIME has seen proof in the form of hundreds of documents provided by Carlos Vieira de Mello, an international arms dealer who worked with the purported rug merchant, Hashemi. TIME has also examined secret records from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control and papers from private arms companies showing that U.S. tank engines and fighter-plane spares were routed to Iran through Canada and Britain. The records indicate that much of the trade is directed from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Arms For the Ayatullah | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...long considered a potential successor. But a few months after Andropov's designation as party leader, Chernenko dropped from public view, ostensibly to battle a bout of pneumonia. When he failed to appear for the traditional May Day lineup atop the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow's active rumor mills began to speculate that he had lost another behind-the-scenes power struggle with Andropov. But once the more than 300 members of the powerful Central Committee had retreated to their semiannual closed-door meeting last week, the official Soviet agency TASS revealed the dramatic news that none other than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A Demonstration of Unity | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub) in his attempts to win the heart of Charles's sweetheart...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Scandalous Fun | 5/27/1983 | See Source »

...inaccessibility of professors has long been a matter of concern for the Harvard community--students, faculty, and administration Consistently students complain, in the faculty says it is trying harder, and the administration assures everyone from concerned alumni to worried parents to prospective high school seniors that, contrary to rumor, the stellar cast of teachers is available to every student. In view of this fact, and the current alarm, nationwide, over the inferior quality of American teaching. I wonder how the Government Department can defend its vote not to promote one of its finest teachers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ethel Klein | 5/25/1983 | See Source »

...contrary to rumor...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Pre-Med Facts | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

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