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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandoned the effort after German bankers formed a consortium to keep the power in German hands. Last year Kuwait bid $982 million for a 14.6% share of Getty Oil of Los Angeles but dropped the tender offer after executors of the estate of J. Paul Getty resisted. In spite of such setbacks, the emirate is plainly doing something right: revenues from its investments this year should reach $7.6 billion, nearly three times the $2.6 billion that Kuwait received from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arab World Wheeler-Dealer | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...Khalid, in fact, is reported to have expressed concern over a possible Communist Cabinet role, while lunching at the Elysée two weeks ago. Aides to Helmut Schmidt hint that the Chancellor will drive the same message home to Mitterrand when the two meet in Luxembourg this week. In spite of such pressures, some Mitterrand-watchers predict that he will bring a few Communists into the government, if only to satisfy his longstanding ambition to "unify France's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's New Look | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

From the very start of the missions, the remarkable effects of zero-g became apparent to Soviet doctors. Life aboard Salyut proved far from salutary. In spite of prolonged training on the ground, many of the cosmonauts could not hold their food down in the early days of a flight. Some had trouble getting to sleep, and were often awakened by the spacecraft's clattering and creaking. Others complained of fatigue and vertigo. In a revealing new book, Red Star in Orbit (Random House; $12.95), James Oberg offers some trenchant quotes from the flight diary of Salyut Cosmonaut Valeri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Final Salute to Salyut 6 | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...national elections-seemed more transparently political. The summit reminded the electorate that it was Begin who signed the first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor. As a top aide to the Israeli Prime Minister put it: "The most important thing is to show the world that, in spite of the Lebanon crisis, the Israeli-Egyptian rapprochement continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Pausing at the Summit | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

...this long trench with mucky water, under and over barrels. And you'd better be screaming like a banshee when you come up for air. I had one more barrel to go under and as I dove down I could see an officer pissing into the ditch, just to spite me. I was so psyched I didn't blink an eye, and I broke water yelling as loud as I could...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Making It With Pride | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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