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Asked a startled lawyer for the House Select Committee on Assassinations: "Have you also been known as Marina Oswald Porter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Facing the Bad | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Cancel all reservations for airline flights, select a reliable four-engine armchair and take off: "The Gremlin's Castle was trembling in an incipient stall ... Almost directly ahead stood the Taj Mahal ... We were obviously going to knock it down ... Desperate in the seconds remaining, I made a wild decision. I doubted if anyone had ever tried it in a C87 ... 'Hogarty!' I yelled. 'Give me full flaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Flaps | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...caucus of Vorster's National Party, comprised of a majority of conservative Afrikaners, will meet in Cape Town on Sept. 28 to select a new president and prime minister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Ill Vorster Leaves Office, Rejects U.N.-Namibia Efforts | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...started as a gaudy circus. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed two years ago to investigate once again the killings of President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressmen vied for the limelight and fought with their abrasive chief counsel, Richard Sprague, who quit within a year. But, to the surprise of its early critics, the committee disciplined itself and did some meticulous though costly work (nearly $5 million by the end of this year). As its public hearings wind down, the committee's sober findings are reinforcing long established official conclusions about the deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lone Assassins | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...singularly curious and inept of TIME to select Hans Küng to comment on the qualifications for the next Pope. Küng questions the fundamental bases of the papacy-its infallibility and primacy. Küng has been judged by such a competent theologian as Karl Rahner to be little different from a liberal Protestant in numerous of his opinions about the church. In fact, Küng has often sailed very close to objective heresy. Great choice indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1978 | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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