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Casino Owner Harvey Gross, 75, anted up $3 million in $100 bills and sent it by helicopter early the next morning to a rendezvous point. Once there, the chopper's pilot received new instructions from the extortionists to head for a strobe light flashing along a highway in northern California. He did so, fruitlessly hovered for half an hour looking for the signal and then flew back to Stateline...
...trying to lure Sadat back to the Arab fold, and have let it be known that he might gain some badly needed oil money to shore up Egypt's economy. Explained Chedli Klibi, the Tunisian secretary-general of the Arab League, in an interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "In Islam we have a saying that if you try and fail-if you recognize your mistake-you will still find your reward. Sadat should recognize the truth and say, 'I've tried and failed.' By doing that he would show the world that he gave...
Travolta moved with strobe-lit energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...
Correspondent Strobe Talbott made it sound as if Reagan's anti-Communism [June 9] was somehow irrational. The sooner we have a foreign policy based on a genuine understanding of Communism, the sooner there will be some hope for the survival and expansion of democracy in the world. To be a true democrat, one cannot be less than antiCommunist...
...wanted to visit. The Soviets were initially quite helpful, recalls Nelan, but after the invasion of Afghanistan and the Carter Administration's tough response, "we were told that we would get no assistance and that our reporters and photographers from the U.S. would not get visas." Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who has covered the Soviet Union for TIME and was the translator-editor of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, was in the U.S.S.R. when tensions began to mount. Says Talbott, who wrote this week's opening story and the appraisal of U.S.-Soviet relations: "It was like being...