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Harold Brown enjoys a reputation for bringing a cool, scientific detachment to his job as Secretary of Defense. All the more surprising, then, that he has plunged into partisan politics this election year with the zest and hyperbole usually expected of more conventional politicians. In fact, Brown himself has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Point Man Harold Brown | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

They were in many ways unprepared for the enormousness of their undertaking. Says Baker: "I just found I had a lot to learn. It doesn't make any difference how well you prepare for it or staff for it. You never know how to run for President until you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: They Thought They Were Better | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

It is an infernal place of Gila monsters, scorching earth, mesquite and giant cactus. For centuries, the section of southern Arizona now designated as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deathtrap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Seemingly unprepared for the wave of criticism, White House officials insisted that Carter's absence was neither intended as a snub nor taken as such by Belgrade. Ambassador Eagleburger told reporters in Belgrade: "You are wrong if you presume that the embassy knows that there is great unhappiness with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Invisible Man | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Refugees were also leaving another Caribbean nation last week. Wading ashore from battered open skiffs, some 1,000 Haitians landed on southern Florida's beaches and were promptly detained as illegal immigrants. They joined a total of more than 3,000 such Haitian "boat people" who have been held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Start of a Mass Exodus | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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