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...bolster the defenses of Libya's neighbors, Tunisia and the Sudan, to "deter further Libyan adventurism." In late July, erroneous reports were published that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was planning to assassinate Gaddafi. This in turn caused a Libyan group called the Free Unionist Officers to threaten a campaign of "physical liquidation" against Americans, including President Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Shootout over the Med | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...weeks since Krukow's lead-off gaffe, the rest of baseball has gone blundering in his footsteps, devising a "second season" of artificial pennant races that promised to reward bad teams and penalize good ones, and prompted some players and managers to threaten openly that they would throw games if they would benefit by doing so under the screwy new rules. Under a lame-brain plan devised by league officials, the four teams leading their divisions when the strike started June 12 (the New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers) were declared "first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball's Sputtering Restart | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...thereby causing Moscow to retaliate with its own nuclear weapons. Thus it might become the catalyst for escalating a conventional war into a nuclear confrontation. Says retired General Wolf von Baudissin, who served as chief of NATO's planning staff: "There are already too many new technologies that threaten stability over the next decade. The only solution is to control armaments programs before production starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments: Risking Political Fallout | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Basque guerrillas fight on-and threaten Spain's democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Terrorists from the Mountains | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

Tribe was more concerned that the law gave a church the right to threaten the viability of an established commercial enterprise without giving a reason for its decision, Remes added...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Court Overturns Church Liquor Veto | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

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