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The talks have been a slog. The North Koreans, superb brinksmen, never budge until the last moment. They negotiate with that combination of self- righteousness and unblushing bad faith common among old-style communist regimes, violating commitments in order to sell the same concession two or three times. On the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War of Nerves At the Nuclear Brink | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

Winnie's followers in the African National Congress, who call her Mother of the Nation, did shout outrage at her conviction last week by a white judge (South Africa does not have jury trials). Mandela and two codefendants had been accused of kidnapping four young black men from a Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Lay Down The Spears! | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

"It will take me more than five months to get over Peter's death," declared Lynne Frederick, 26, last Christmas in Gstaad, where she was recovering in the company of David Frost, 41, an old flame. Exactly one month later, Peter Sellers' widow marched down the aisle with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 9, 1981 | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

No Show. Not to the Soviet censors. They called it an "anti-Soviet caricature-irrelevant, immature and politically illiterate," and said it could not be displayed. Very well, said Glazunov, cancel the show. Unblushing, the head of the Soviet Artists Union wrote the next day in Pravda that "for us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Ars Brevis for a Soviet Painter | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

That was 1968. Now, three years later, Nixon's unblushing rhetoric may well be returning to haunt him. Under his Administration, crime has continued to mount. In 1969 the total of reported crimes increased 12% over the previous year, while the four categories of violent crime-murder, rape, robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Backfire on Crime | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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