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Charles Darwin would have loved the British salmon, school of 83. Returning this month as they do annually from their far-flung North Atlantic feeding grounds to rivers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales where they were spawned, the great game fish face a hazardous course that only the fittest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Troubled Waters | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

I would like to offer an alternative vision to the present scenario and I invite discussion from anyone who shares my dissatisfaction. Imagine that rather than a surprise invitation of a PLO leader, whose hostility toward Israel is known Jewish, Arab, Black and Third World organizations co-sponsored a series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Stacked Cards' | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

In the nuclear age, it may be safer when each side has only spears

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks of Taking Up Shields | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

The chief negotiator in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), Edward Rowny, has voiced skepticism about whether the U.S. should continue to comply with the ABM treaty. In 1972, he says, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in effect agreed to throw away their shields; since then, the Soviets have acquired an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Risks of Taking Up Shields | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

The worst violence apparently took place near the town of Nellie, in a rice-growing area 34 miles northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Agony of Assam | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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