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One important, though perhaps temporary, outgrowth of the talks was that the 42-man U.S. delegation managed for once to paper over its own splits. State Department moderates and Pentagon hawks remain divided over what compromises, if any, to offer when hard bargaining begins. But in Geneva they cooperated in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only a Step, But an Encouraging One: Space Weapons Talks Set | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

The Iraqi strikes that preceded the Iranian aerial campaign were apparently carried out by French-built Mirage F1 fighter-bombers equipped to fire Exocet missiles. Iraq took delivery of 28 such F1 models last summer, all specially modified to use the standoff antiship missile that first made its mark during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Tit for Tat | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Ever since its existence became known last October, the CIA'S how-to book for Nicaraguan rebels, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War, has been high profile. When it was being distributed in Nicaragua, however, it seems the manual was also highflying. Congressional investigators revealed last week that packets of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Altitude Handbooks | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

One can think of a number of reasons for giving out a lot of honors degrees come each June, from making a lot of people happy to giving Harvard students better positioning in the post-graduation job competition. The former proposition is absurd, the latter dubious; it is unlikely that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Tough | 12/5/1984 | See Source »

Sure, other plants live in the Oval Office-palms on the floor, half a dozen dwarf spathiphyllum, sometimes pots of ornamental peppers. The Swedish ivy, however, is above the rest, literally and figuratively. As the most important houseplant on earth, it gets, one imagines, special attention, the perquisites of position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Permanent Oval Office Occupant | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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