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...locked in an angry "yes-I-did, no-you-didn't" clinch until Jesse Jackson, who had skillfully been playing both spoiler and referee, stepped in. He clucked that the quarrel would be called so much "rat-a-tat-tat" and dismissed it as a "kinship struggle" between two men "going in the same direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Politics, Global Power | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...tat in which Chile's Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, was overthrown and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Sectarian murder, that tit-for-tat madness so familiar to residents of war-torn Lebanon, found a new venue last week in the streets of Israel and the occupied West Bank. In the Israeli port of Ashdod, 22 miles from Tel Aviv, an Arab grenade exploded on a crowded bus, killing three Israelis and wounding ten others. Responsibility for the action was claimed by the Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Holy Terror | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...would have looked too much like doing," what he the said "Our spots candidates had were to work harder." Each was tailored to a specific audience and strategically aired in time slots close to news, public affairs shows or popular prime-time series. All seven had a rat-a-tat rhythm that sent out an unmistakable message: Hart is a man on the move. "The spots are real, real intense and jampacked," said Strother. "They are so rapid fire that the viewer needs a break to begin to comprehend them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Video Games | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 5, 1983 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

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