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...centuries have done to the originals. "When you break the neck off," he explains with professional pride, "it must look natural." He heats the sculpture with a hair dryer, paints it with a secret chemical solution, and buries it for two weeks in his backyard, often in Cambodian soil that he has imported through refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border...
Jagger, recently returned from a tour of Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras and Costa Rica, said she witnessed the forcible abduction of refugees by Salvadoran troops on Honduran soil. Plans to relocate the refugees 35 miles inland from the border would not guarantee their safety because of Honduran military collaboration with the Salvadoran Junta, Jagger added...
...reduction negotiations with the Soviets. This year, the Reagan administration seemed to have contradicted the European plan by emphasizing rearmament rather than disarmament. Statements by administration officials on the possibility of "limited" nuclear wars in Europe horrified NATO leaders, who questioned the deployment of more American missiles on their soil while the U.S. had ostensibly abandoned detented. The "zero-option" provided welcome relief to these leaders by identifying the Americans as compromising and reasonable after...
When TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers returned to Europe last spring after a four-year absence, he was struck by the profound changes in European attitudes toward the Atlantic Alliance and the U.S. Growing numbers of people, mostly young, were protesting the deployment of new U.S. missiles on European soil and voicing their concern about the mounting hostility between the two superpowers. Rademaekers talked with idealistic youths in and out of the peace movements; with members of the postwar generation coming to positions of influence in business, politics and teaching; and with government leaders who were apprehensive about the drift...
...uprisings. The Europeans because they have experienced international war directly, on their soil, feel directly affected by this bantering about theatre nuclear war and limited nuclear war that we Americans seem to feel isolated from, and I think that's scary...