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...Marine headquarters near Beirut International Airport and a French military barracks are attacked almost simultaneously by suicide truck bombers; 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French paratroopers killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time of Terror | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...modest $3 to $22, get their go from a special twist. They are fantasy machines and long-favored hot-rods all in one. With a crank of the arms or a snap of the legs, each can be changed from a robot into a race car or a truck or a plane, then back to robot again. One of the Transformers, for instance, resembles an innocent cassette player until he is snapped open to become the despised Decepticon, Soundwave ($15). GoBot's Leader1 can be folded up to become an avenging jet fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hot Toys with a Special Twist | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...president correctly points out that no one has the right to decide for others what is appropriate for public debate or what has already been so thrashed out that nobody needs to hear about it anymore. Further, he has no truck for the mistaken notion that somehow hecklers have an equivalent right to protection in their effort to drown out an unpopular speaker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Easy Target | 9/25/1984 | See Source »

...looked like a real football game, a contest that would signal the coming of fall. It was even televised, and the truck with the WGBH camera on it went lumbering along the sidelines throughout. The brand-new Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field, all white and Columbia blue, almost sparkled in the sunshine. The assembled fans did their best to appear unimpressed, but the return of football to Manhattan after a 17-month absence put a note of hope into...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The View From the Stands | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Valerie is a New Jersey mother of two boys, age two and three, whom she describes as "little monsters full of mischief." Her husband works as a truck driver, and money is tight. The family of four is living with her mother while they save for an apartment of their own. One day last March, Valerie, 23, who prefers to remain anonymous, saw the following advertisement in a local New Jersey paper: Surrogate mother wanted. Couple unable to have child willing to pay $10,000 fee and expenses to woman to carry husband's child. Conception by artificial insemination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Surrogate's Story | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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