Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occupied West Bank, but life is not getting any easier for the Nahal soldiers. The unit was dispatched last month to patrol the city of Nablus and its outskirts. The soldiers have been instructed to keep main roads open to traffic and to disperse small threatening crowds on the spot. If the group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they are attacked. Here it's forbidden." Here...
Looking for an exotic vacation spot? Try a package tour to the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, now leaving from San Francisco...
Since last April, several hundred Americans have picked an unlikely vacation spot: Viet Nam. Among the travelers on one recent package tour was Paul Witteman, TIME's San Francisco bureau chief. A report on his adventures follows...
With a little luck, even Americans may find themselves a spot at one of five downtown hotels that the Vietnamese generously rank as first class. The old Saigon Palace on Nguyen Hue Street may be the best of the lot, but guests must still share the "sunny terrace" on the hotel rooftop with brown rats the size of squirrels. Consequently, one does not tarry romantically over cocktails...
This week Haig will begin airing TV and radio ads in New Hampshire that try to put the episode in a more positive light. Titled "Take Charge," the TV spot opens on a serene Haig, casually dressed in a suede jacket and orange shirt, seated before a roaring fireplace. Chariots of Fire-style music swells in the background as Haig calmly recalls how, in a "dangerous atmosphere," when the Pentagon was on nuclear alert and Moscow was confused, he had come forward and "said what had to be said." He leans into the camera and confides...