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...slightly damaged building. Several hours later the Unified Nasserite Organization, a previously unknown group, claimed in Beirut that it had carried out the raid primarily in retaliation for British support of the U.S. bombing of Libya. American F-111 jets used in the raid took off from British soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: It's Not Over Till It's Over | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...talking about people who want to give birth and grow and love and laugh and die, bonded and sustained by the soil, which is the oldest way of life Americans know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Cries of the Heart | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

...Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. As U.S. embassy spokesmen in the capital city of La Paz and Defense Department officials in Washington tried to downplay the matter, headlines in Bolivia and the U.S. were blaring the news: in the first use of a U.S. military operation on foreign soil to fight drugs, Army Black Hawk helicopters, armed with .30-cal. machine guns and escorted by about 160 U.S. soldiers, had been flown into the South American jungle to assist Bolivian authorities in wiping out that country's production of cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking At the Source | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...list. Reason: among the seven scenarios included in MicroProse Software's $34.95 disk was a strikingly similar mission. Based on a 1981 incident in which U.S. jets downed a pair of Libyan MiGs over the Gulf of Sidra, the program was embellished with a mythical air strike over Libyan soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Bombs Away | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...suffering from cancer of the prostate. Under his rule, Rumania (pop. 23 million) has sometimes steered a diplomatic course independent of Moscow. The country, for example, refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, does not allow the military organization to hold maneuvers on its soil, and refused to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Mother of the Fatherland | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

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