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Although public attention has recently been on the Japanese, the Soviets are the main focus of Operation Exodus and other campaigns. Insiders say that what the press had dubbed the Japan-scam sting operation was really a trap laid for Communist agents. In that case, the FBI arrested employees of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and charged them with conspiring to transport stolen IBM computer secrets from California's Silicon Valley, near San Francisco, to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Cloak and Dagger | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...saying "hot as hell." The first battle has left its marks on the desert. One has no difficulty imagining the screams of dying men, for there are still bodies all around, partially covered now by the drifting sand. Most of the dead are Iranian soldiers, caught in a trap from which they could not escape. The Iraqis pretended to retreat, drawing the Iranian forces into what an Iraqi colonel describes as a "killing zone." He explains: "God was on our side. Just then, a fierce sandstorm arose and blinded the enemy. His tanks crashed into one another. We were already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre at Fish Lake | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...Iraqi trap was sprung near a man-made body of water called Fish Lake. For a short time, the Iranians held the pumping station that feeds river water into the lake, but they were soon beaten back by an Iraqi counterattack. Once again in Iraqi hands, the pumps are pouring thousands of gallons into Fish Lake, thereby increasing the size of the water barrier against an enemy armored thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre at Fish Lake | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...three children are now in a different city, living under an assumed name. His former buddies, he says, "wouldn't mind killing me." Like Chandler and Howard, he had worked to get more black police hired, and the sense of betrayal is bitter. And his anguished decision to trap comrades, Watson says, "is something I still haven't worked out. I probably never will." He is pleased to have shown that cover-ups are not standard procedure in his beloved Chicago department, especially under the reformist administration of Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek. "I knew if I went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A True Prince off the City | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...solution must be found for the Palestinians. I so hope that somehow people will not fall into the same trap as they have before. I hope that after this particular disaster they will achieve something. There is talk of a holocaust. This is a holocaust! Maybe this is sufficient reason for the world and especially for the U.S. to reassess its attitude toward the disaster of this conflict. I can't see a solution to the Palestinian problem without the Palestinians participating. I don't see why the Soviets should be out of it, why Europe should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Jordan: An Interview with King Hussein | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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