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...officials found out about the plot only after the Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Disaster Averted | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...public support and can even be considered a logical evolution of the space agency's overall program. Over the part three decades, the development of the space program has been based on three major decisions: Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 move to initiate space travel with the development of the Vanguard satellite; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to put people on the moon; and Richard M. Nixon's 1969 plan to do away with the disposable space craft and develop the shuttle. The next stop. NASA officials say, is to develop a permanent U.S. presence in space with...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Where Are We Going To? | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...Midwestern states are key battlegrounds for Senate races this year. In Illinois, a member of the old Republican vanguard is fighting for his political life. In Iowa, a New Rightist is trying to overcome indiscretions and missteps in his quest for a second term. Both men are facing tough, aggressive liberal challengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: Embattled Heartland Republicans | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity. The country's economic future, when viewed through a silvery high-tech scrim, does indeed look exciting. Moreover, the 21st century seems to be mingling with the 19th: entrepreneurism, led by the high-tech vanguard, has been imbued with a quasipatriotic urgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Upbeat Mood | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...fundamental problems confronting Harvard's library fall into two categories: space and preservation. Space poses a problem because it can restrict Harvard's ability to stay on the vanguard of scholarship, and preservation because once those books are acquired, they begin to deteriorate on the shelves...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Traffic in the Stacks | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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