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These are only a few of the thousands of known incidents that shed a sliver of light on the sweep of Soviet intelligence activities round the world. Western authorities view the KGB as a worthy and persistent foe. Says a former high CIA and State Department official: "They're a lot better than we think: I think they're damn good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KGB: Russia's Old Boychiks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Washington siege was an explosive mixture of gangsterism, revenge, racial hostility and religious bickering elevated, as the participants proclaimed, to the level of a holy war. The terrorists were members of a sliver-sized religious organization called the Hanafi-a rival of the much larger Black Muslims, a group that has been plagued with violence over the years but has recently become more subdued (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The 38 Hours: Trial by Terror | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...infinitely solemn wisp of a girl, 4 ft. 11 in. tall, a mere 86 Ibs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPICS: The Games: Up in the Air | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Brave New Town. The enticements of Roosevelt Island-a 147-acre, 2 ½ -mile sliver in the East River-start with well-designed urban housing. The buildings contain grade school classrooms and shops, though Manhattan is only 31/2 minutes away by aerial tramway (TIME, May 24). There is even a pneumatic garbage system that whisks household refuse to a central disposal plant. Perhaps most important, and maybe at some risk, Roosevelt Island mixes income groups-rich, middle class and poor. Opened late last year, the project has leased one-third of its 2,100 rental units and sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Downtown Is Looking Up | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...thousand kneeling cushions, each in elaborately individualized needlepoint. Stone tributes not just to biblical heroes but to Sören Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Albert Schweitzer and Jane Addams. Even a carved snake in the choir with a caricatured head of Hitler. A space-age window in which a sliver of a moon rock is encased. On the roof, growling gargoyles, and on the lawn, an oversized gilded bronze statue of Washington astride a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Washington's Church | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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