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President Reagan once called him the "little dictator who went to Moscow," but when Daniel Ortega strolls around Managua with his two small sons in tow, he looks anything but the strongman. No tassles and epaulets for him, no holster around the waist, no stretch Mercedes. Hatless, in a black T shirt and khakis, Ortega could be any Latin American father except for the security contingent tailing him. Whether by design or by nature, he operates in public like a man of the people. When he travels by car, he is usually behind the wheel, and the car is usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Designer Glasses | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...chose not to take part in the uprising. Throughout the night, the terrorists continued releasing hostages. By late Friday morning only four remained: Presiding Judge Dominique Bailhache, two assistant judges and a prosecutor. Then Courtois, handcuffed at the wrist to Bailhache, emerged from the courthouse and, with judge in tow, paced up and down for almost half an hour. At one point he yelled angrily to police and journalists, "Go away, I don't want to see you." He then fired four shots toward the crowd, sending the onlookers sprawling and shattering a television-camera lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Trial By Terror | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Texas--ranked ninth--will bring an 18-match winning streak with it to Cambridge. And that isn't all U.T. will bring. The Lady Longhorns will have Beverly Bowes, Anne Grousbeck, and Michelle Carrier in tow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Host High-Powered Tourney | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

LAST FRIDAY, THE Vice President of the United States was in town to preach the gospel of free enterprise against a hi-tech backdrop. With 40 reporters and 20 television cameras in tow, George Bush toured the Teradyne Co. plant in South Boston and addressed several hundred employees. The buzzwords of the day were familiar ones--innovation, growth, opportunity and competitiveness. The omissions were just as predictable...

Author: By David S. Hilzenn, | Title: Beating Around the Bush | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

...former aide to Richard Nixon, though, he should have realized that he was doing Cuomo the same sort of favor that President Lyndon B. Johnson inadvertently did for Nixon. In 1966 the former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never did really recognize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuomo's Sparring Partner | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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