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Maseru, Lesotho, Sept. 2. A bomb tore off the roof of the terminal building at Maseru airport and shattered windows in an adjoining restaurant and airline offices. Next day bombs exploded in a crowded bar and outside the U.S. International Communication Agency. The attacks were presumed to be the work of the Lesotho Liberation Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Epidemic of Bombings | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...came. Business was rotten. Old Elihu didn't care whether he shut down for a while or not. He tore up the agreements he had made with his men and began kicking them back into their prewar circumstances. Of course they yelled for help. They struck...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...become available in the past few weeks. The Veterans Administration has published a five-volume study of Viet Nam veterans by the Center for Policy Research in New York City. Viet Nam veterans, the study concluded, have been paying a disproportionate social price for their experience. The war tore loose the wiring in many of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Bringing the Viet Nam Vets Home | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...more than $2.2 million. Beyond the burnt buildings and ravaged streets twinkling with shards of glass from shattered storefront windows, however, London now bears a more lasting scar: the psychic damage from the worst race riot in British history, an ugly explosion reminiscent of the violence that tore apart dozens of American cities in the '60s and, only eleven months ago, left whole sections of Miami in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Bloody Saturday | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...First Lady's friends say that she feels "guilty" about being * when the slug tore into Reagan's left side. She has spent the week visiting hospital rooms-the President's and those of the three men shot with him. She has been consoling Sarah Brady, knowing that a slight change in the angle of the gun barrel could have laid Reagan as low as Jim Brady, or worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Nancy Reagan | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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