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...Alexander Haig's jet. The official who, of course, was quickly revealed to be Haig himself admitted that in the future he would have to be more careful in his anti-Soviet remarks, lest they give the Kremlin leaders an additional excuse to invade Poland. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott believes there are other dangers, too, that Haig should keep in mind. Talbott's analysis...
...some important old friends in East Asia, notably Japan, as well as a big if problematic new one, the People's Republic of China. East Asia also contains two perennial trouble spots that could be flash points of superpower confrontation-the Korean peninsula and Indochina. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has returned from an extensive East Asian tour, reports...
...into a cistern. There seems to be no doubt, as Kenneth Clark pointed out a generation ago, that Leonardo's eye was preternaturally fast; he could grasp and isolate fractions of movement in time with a precision that would only be confirmed, more than four centuries later, by strobe photography. So with his drawing: the reflux of foam, the chrysanthemum-like poppling of the back eddies on the surface, the strings and rings of bubbles are seen with astounding acuity, as is the rendering of different levels of water motion in the transparent depth of the cistern...
...TIRED to Boogie," a lengthy disco scene, radiates the pathos and misfortune of academic types seeking to relieve their boredom in the foreign environment of strobe lights and glass balls. In contrast, a '50s bobby-socks mock-up allows the singers and dancers to wail over the alienation of their social life by oppressive education appeal to the audience as reminders of the elite status that three years at the Law School provide to those who choose to undergo whatever social barbarism it imposes. The show's authors depict the painstaking process of interviewing with corporate law firms, an experience...
...political institutions, Senior Writer Otto Friedrich returned to many of the themes explored in TIME'S 1976 Bicentennial issue, which he edited. "Defining the changing role and the ultimate power of the Congress is just as important today as it was 200 years ago," says Friedrich. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott analyzed American foreign policy and defense, and Senior Writer Lance Morrow wrote about the duties of citizenship. Morrow is obviously serious-if somewhat literal minded-about American Renewal. He and his wife Brooke are expecting their second child on the Fourth of July...