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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Siegel wanted to develop in Essex, Md. Like any good reporter, Jacobson started asking questions. Why would the former Interior Secretary, now a Wyoming-based businessman and a professed enemy of Big Government, be involved in such a project? Jacobson started combing every public file on the 312-unit Kingsley Park development but could not turn up any references to Watt. Jacobson says Siegel flatly denied that Watt was involved. Since Jacobson could not confirm the story, she shelved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Where Were the Media on HUD? | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that the city stop using the Batman , logo on its ambulance-like BATmobile. The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its popularized name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Mexico: Banning a BATmobile | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...later did an answer arrive at Bodo: the Soviets declined help, obviously not eager to have foreigners, especially military men from a NATO country, clambering on their sub or plucking their sailors from the sea. Later in the day, Soviet officials revealed that an air seal in the cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet freighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas Danger! | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first strike. Near Minsk he observed an armored unit practice "tactical withdrawal" (i.e., retreat) in response to an enemy attack. At the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow, where senior officers play war games on huge maps, an instructor stressed that for the past two years, the scenarios have $ always begun with the other side shooting first. Neither host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: A Yankee in Gorbachev's Court | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Savannah River reactor, the only fire-fighting equipment was a garden hose. Managers left the sprinkler system off in another unit for fear that if activated it might get computers and records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Mind-Set | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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