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Rose, 38, who now heads a farm relief program in South Carolina, contends that the opposition of his Colorado accusers was politically motivated. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Rose had created a stir in the early '70s with a law- review article charging the military academies with violating the rights of cadets charged with honor-code transgressions. He discussed his charges on a segment of 60 Minutes and later represented 100 West Point cadets accused of cheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Big People Can Be Wrong | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...loose wording, the measure could open the way for legislation that would endanger bilingual ballots, educational programs, emergency services and television programming, all of which aid immigrants, especially the elderly, to adjust to an English-speaking soci- ety. It could also, warns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, "stir hatred and animosity. It could tear us apart as a people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: English Spoken Here, O.K.? | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...most of Updike's fiction -- sometimes, as in A Month of Sundays (1975), expressed directly by an agonized clerical narrator. Roger Lambert, another lapsed preacher, comes from this austere region of Updike's imagination, suffering not doubts now but numbness. It is the job of Roger's Version to stir its hero back to moral life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Theology and the Computer Roger's Version | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...Anna and Karl Kuerner, Wyeth's neighbors in Chadds Ford, from 1948 to 1979; teenage Siri Erickson, another Cushing resident, from 1967 to 1972. The paintings of her were also withheld, until she turned 21, and their release in 1975 caused a little of the same stir that the Helgas have. Siri, now 32 and the mother of two girls, recalls no embarrassment or awe about posing nude for Wyeth when she was 13. "He would get totally involved in his work. It was as if you were a tree," she says. "He's a normal, everyday person. He does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...policy of aggression. Walters countered, "Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement? Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua's private sector?" Within moments, Ortega's appeal was forgotten, and the winds of war began to stir once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America the Freshening Winds of War | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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