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The Pentagon enlists the press as an unwitting ally.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

Child-custody disputes are often the trigger for youngsters' unwitting lies. Suspicions can cause parents to launch what legal scholar Douglas Besharov of Washington's American Enterprise Institute calls "the atomic bomb of child- custody fights, the charge of sex abuse." In these stressful situations, children quickly discover what adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Children Lie in Court | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

CLEARLY, such extreme reactions signal the intense psychological strain that so many of us suffer from always returning to our rooms unsure of the extent of gravitational damage. We all know that poster gum is defective; anyone who tells you otherwise is either an unwitting dupe or a paid agent...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: This Isn't a Stickup | 2/12/1991 | See Source »

Authorities say that Copeland, with her husband Ray, 75, had hired the transients to buy livestock from local cattle barns with bad checks, resold the animals before the checks bounced, then silenced their unwitting agents. The victims were discovered on farms in northwest Missouri with .22-cal. gunshot wounds in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri: Grandma's Last Roundup | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

Cairncross's accuser is Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from the Soviet KGB in 1985 and is co-author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: And Now There Are Five | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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