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The military's effectiveness has risen, although much of the improvement began before Duarte took office. Under pressure from U.S. advisers, the army has stopped fighting the war on a 9-to-5 schedule, making forays into the countryside and returning to the barracks at sundown. Instead, commanders increasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Darkness Before Dawn | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

The story of Dobanday is typical. Just six years ago, 20,000 people lived in spacious adobe houses scattered across the floor of a green, spring-fed canyon some 45 miles south of Kabul. "Life was good," recalls Haji Jumah Gul. "We had wheat, corn, rice, melons, apples, cherries, pears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Reviving the Songs of Old | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

His relaxed performance is the result of endless discipline and labor, and Iglesias is rarely satisfied. "He always wants more-more love, more houses, more records, more success," says Martinez. His marriage of eight years was annulled in 1979, and although he remains devoted to his three children, who live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hail the Conquering Crooner | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

Millions already have. As a result, the 84,942-sq.-mi. expanse of peaks, pastures and icy lakes that ranges over seven nations from the Gulf of Genoa to Vienna is reeling from the effects of overcrowding. Trails of beer and soft-drink cans festoon the mountainsides. Slashes that are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Apocalypse in the Alps | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

As directed by him, Gerry Bamman's Or gon is pompous, adenoidal, often petulantly childish; he reveres Tartuffe in or der to assert his moral superiority over a family that has grown fractious. Harris Yulin's Tartuffe is cold and cobra-like, vengeful and vain. He has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Schooling in Surveillance | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

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