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The U.S. Air Force is so secretive about its radar-invisible Stealth fighter that it refused to acknowledge the plane existed even when one crashed in California two years ago. Yet when a covey of U.S.A.F. pilots converged in Washington last week for an Air Force Association symposium, shop talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Force: How Wobbly The Goblin | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

As foreign tourists, diplomats and even the locals long ago discovered, it is tricky to find one's way around the Soviet Union. No wonder. In a startling admission last week, a sheepish-sounding Soviet official said the Kremlin has deliberately falsified virtually all maps of the country for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Which Way to Lenin's Tomb? | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Along with an ambitious schedule of unmanned missions, the Soviet probes of the Martian moon Phobos are paving the way for a manned flight to Mars. The fact has not been lost on many Americans, who think the U. S. space program should aim at putting humans on the Red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page July 18, 1988 | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

The contest between Dukakis and Bush will be less about ideas and ideologies than about clashing temperaments and styles. Assessing such traits is always tricky, and never more so than in a campaign that provides little more than snippets of carefully programmed candidates. But the puzzle can sometimes be pieced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Childhoods | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

The pact is more than 90% done. Of course, the remaining 10% includes some tricky issues, and it may be there, in those details, that the devil resides. While a fifth Reagan summit with Gorbachev is possible, it may take Michael Dukakis or George Bush to finish the work. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Superpowers: Inside Moves | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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