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...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: How Not to Stage a Kidnaping | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...suddenly the set explodes--it actually goes "boom"--giving way to a series of increasingly nightmarish scenarios that spill across the stage as they expand into the far reaches of Prum's unconscious mind. And to be sure, the inventive psychological meanderings are a Freudian's picnic...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Feast for All | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

...standing on both my feet." He insisted that the Soviets were doing their part to ensure the success of the upcoming Geneva summit, but the U.S. had been "dragging its feet from the very start" on arms control. Quipped Karpov in the kind of Western cliche that seems to spill effortlessly from publicity-conscious Soviet diplomats these days: "It takes two to tango." His American counterpart, Max Kampelman, said the U.S. was "hopeful" that the proposal would provide the basis for "serious negotiation." But, he added, "it is important to pay close attention to the fine print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mix of Hope and Hokum | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Consider the meager six sites deemed to have been cleaned through the Superfund. After a nine-month-long spill of chemicals into the Susquehanna River starting in 1979, it was found that a small Pennsylvania company had / been systematically, and illegally, dumping toxic wastes into shafts that fed into the Butler Tunnel, an outlet for waste water from abandoned coal mines near Pittston, Pa. Three men were convicted of violating the state's Clean Streams Act, and one was sent to prison. The three and their company were fined $750,000. EPA supervised the cleanup of the river pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...corrupt and corrupting profession," Dershowitz told the crowded courtroom and spill-over audience watching on closed-circuit television...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Panel Attacks State of Profession | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

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