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With the morning mists come the legends, the old bugle calls, the tramp of sure feet, voices raised in liberty's arguments. Soon enough Reagan will be down on the battlefield with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, and his days will be ordered by the cables from Moscow and the Middle East. But, for the moment, he lives in a special glory that is granted to all new Presidents as they wait on Pennsylvania Avenue for the day when they can enter the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: A Moment of Special Glory | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...Unease within the defense community over Caspar Weinberger has blossomed into panic," their column began. Weinberger "has booted out 'Reaganaut' military advisers, trashed their recommendations and at least opened the door for soft-liners." Carlucci's appointment is "the visible tip of concealed events . . . The most charitable explanation is that this is no conspiracy but the product of Weinberger's nearly total ignorance on defense questions . . . But assuming Weinberger finally learns the names and issues involved, he has lost valuable time in revising defense spending . . . That may well prevent any Reagan hurry-up plans for accelerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Offense, Defense and Cheap Shots | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...nearly lunchtime one day last week when Vice President Walter Mondale led 43 Senators into the cavernous and half-empty House chamber, sat next to House Speaker Tip O'Neill on the rostrum and began one of the oddest-but necessary-rituals of American presidential politics. Exactly two months earlier, Ronald Wilson Reagan had been elected President; in exactly two weeks, he would be inaugurated. Yet, under the cumbersome election procedures set forth in the U.S. Constitution, he was not yet officially President-elect of the United States. One by one, Mondale opened 51 sealed envelopes, which contained certificates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riding into the Sunrise | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...missile defenses, the potential for troublemaking seems boundless. Already computer thieves, often striking from within, have embezzled millions of dollars. In 1978 a consultant got a Los An geles bank's computer to transfer $10.2 million to his out-of-town account. Only a confederate's tip led to his discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills. As in the Dalton case, computer passwords are often short and simple. Be sides, computer networks like Telenet or Datapac, frequently publicize their numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Superzapping in Computerland | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...published in the official Communist Party newspaper, People's Daily, which, for the first time ever, acknowledged that Mao "personally initiated and led the Cultural Revolution." It was a mistake, the paper added, that "brought grave misfortune to the party and the people." The denunciation seemed to tip the scales to a negative balance in the long and highly calibrated reassessment of Mao's historic rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Tearing Down of an Idol | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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