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No one could dispute Kania's claim that the economy was in dire straits. With a $27 billion foreign debt, runaway inflation and falling production, Poland was on the verge of economic collapse. Panic buying aggravated an already critical food shortage; practically nothing was available except beans and vinegar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Back to the Precipice | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

For all their splashy impact, Pincher's charges left many Britons unconvinced. Said Labor M.P. Robert Cryer:"I am very suspicious of allegations timed to sell books." Pincher himself carefully pointed out that "at no time in the book do I say that Hollis was a spy. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir Roger Hollis: A Mole in MI5? | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Eventually they decided to work the same hours again. Al got home first one day and met Vivian outside the door. He was white as a sheet. "Honey," he said, "we've been ripped off again." This time the burglars took some of the items the Webers had bought as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

Botha's decision to go to the country for endorsement of his leadership, 19 months before the law requires him to do so, appeared to be carefully calculated. It was timed to capitalize on a still booming economy and was aimed at strengthening his hand against the recalcitrant right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Stalled Reform | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Bowen's Anglo-Irish background, her childhood on a rural estate in County Cork, served her well when she went to London to write in the 1920s. Although sophistication came easily to her, along with Bloomsbury friends, she did not forget that cultivated society was a veneer over a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Profligacy off Inference | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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