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...allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but last week TIME learned that the agents also discovered that gamblers had used a computer to do their bookkeeping-and that the computer was owned by Sandia Laboratories, a supposedly supersecret contractor that makes nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...change diluted lacocca's control over day-to-day operations, and sent him on a supersecret scouting mission for a possible job as assistant and heir apparent to J. Stanford Smith, chief executive of International Paper Co. The talks came to nothing. lacocca's role at Ford was reduced still further only a month ago when Ford expanded the office of the chief executive to include his brother William Clay Ford, 53, owner of the Detroit Lions football team. At the time the internal structure of the office was modified so that lacocca could no longer report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Upheaval in the House of Ford | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

This time his story concerns a young man (Andrew Stevens) and a young woman (Amy Irving) who are gifted with extrasensory perception as well. That makes them doubly interesting to a supersecret Government agency, which seeks to exploit their gifts in the interest of "national security." After the youth is spectacularly abducted by these spooks, his father (Kirk Douglas) traces him to Chicago, where he manages to find the girl and enlist her telepathic aid in finding his son. Unfortunately, the G-men are just a step behind-and ahead-of both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blood Revenge | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...report is based largely on the supersecret proceedings of the Standing Consultative Commission in Geneva, which is a joint U.S.-Soviet grievance board for monitoring SALT I, and the National Security Council's Verification Panel. By making the information public, the Administration sought to refute Laird's charges, as well as those made by other SALT opponents. The chief points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Soothe SALT'S Critics | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Lenin and Trotsky, they impressed Clayton Van Lydegraf with their grasp of revolutionary ideology. Lydegraf, 62, a Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core members, it is widely believed to have been behind the bombings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Infiltrating the Underground | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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