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...never forget the sixteen years of her indomitable presence in New Delhi. "Indira is India!" cried the slogans of the 1980 election campaign and indeed millions of Indians, friends and enemies, supporters and opponents, the in tellectuals and the common-man wait anxiously, hoping that someone will fill the vacuum she has undoubtedly left behind...

Author: By Vijaya Ramachandran, | Title: Remembering Indira Gandhi | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...Israeli request for the U.S. to act as a mediator in the withdrawal effort). In Damascus, the Syrian capital, there were official expressions of approval at the prospect of a Lebanese-Israeli meeting but continued rejection of two key Israeli demands: that Syria promise not to move into the vacuum created by an Israeli withdrawal, and that Damascus guarantee Israel's northern border against Palestinian guerrilla infiltration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Pullout Signs | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Mather relied almost exclusively on its passing game because injuries from previous games left a vacuum in its backfield...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Eliot Stonewalls Mather, 8-0 | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...that is doubtless installed in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic properties in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Kremlin's listening post in Cuba, for example, can pick up virtually all traffic from U.S. domestic communication satellites. Says an NSA official: "They just sit down there with their huge vacuum cleaner and suck everything up." In recent years the Soviets have developed computers that can cull such intelligence with much more sophistication than earlier models, and not just in search of defense secrets. "A computer can put together those bits and pieces," says an NSA official. "And even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Use the Phone? | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Post interview is the latest in a series of Chernenko appearances evidently designed to dispel speculation that the leader's health is failing and that his nation is suffering a leadership vacuum. A few days after signing a friendship treaty in Moscow with President Ali Abdullah Saleh of North Yemen, Chernenko last week received Syrian President Hafez Assad in the Kremlin. Hungarian Communist Leader Janos Kadar, on a visit to Paris last week, insisted that all is well in the Moscow hierarchy. Said he: "It is a stable leadership, and the continuity of its leadership is the mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Soft Sell | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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