Word: turned
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...addition to the "boat people" arriving by sea from Viet Nam, thousands of Chinese are crossing the colony's 17-mile-long border with the People's Republic. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, after accompanying one of the colony's border patrols that seek to apprehend and turn back these illegal immigrants, last week filed this report...
...Washington's view, the new policy risks a direct Israeli confrontation with the Syrians, whose more than 22,000 troops constitute the principal peace-keeping force in Lebanon. After the air battle, Syria reportedly issued orders for its MiGs to intercept all Israeli flights over Lebanon. In turn, Premier Begin told the Jewish Assembly: "Damascus should know that they can't interfere with our artillery and air force." If Israeli planes are shot down in Lebanon, he warned, Syria will pay the consequences...
...centrifuge plant, Khan was asked to translate classified documents of a West German uranium enrichment project into Dutch. From these papers, according to a Dutch official, he compiled a complete list of the plant's subcontractors and suppliers and passed it along to Islamabad. Pakistani officials, in turn, put together a shopping list of the materials needed for a gas centrifuge system. They then used dummy companies and agents in Europe to make individual purchases from the list...
Soon the confrontation took a different turn. A few days later, the ship's operator, Whale Ltd., Iceland's only whaling company, went into the Icelandic courts to request an injunction that would restrain McTaggart and company from further interference with its four whalers. But Greenpeace was not ready to call it quits. Early one morning, the anti-whalers' mother ship, Rainbow Warrior* slipped out of Reykjavik in hopes of making it to the whaling grounds. Said McTaggart: "I think we've been so successful they will have to arrest us." Not quite. During the first...
...TIME. At Newsweek he is expected to steady both the editorial product and declining office morale. In a chatty, upbeat memo to the staff, he promised "some changes in tone, emphasis and operating style." Given his age and Graham's habit of replacing executives unexpectedly, Bernstein may turn out to be a caretaker appointee-"like bringing Bob Lemon in to replace Billy Martin," in the words of one Newsweek hand. Says Bernstein: "I expect to stay a long time...