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...limits of what we can pay," said Simone Veil, former French Health Minister before her election last year as President of the European Parliament. "European ministers know the problem full well, but they have not started to alert public opinion." The reluctance to bear such unpopular tidings is politically understandable. Among voters, the hunger for ever more social programs has become a virtual addiction. New generations of Western Europeans take for granted the benefits they have inherited-and demand more. It was easy enough for governments to comply during an era of rapid growth, when rising welfare costs were absorbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Reassessing the Welfare State | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Evelyn (Hilary Ryan), a beautiful, dark-eyed senior classwoman who is everything Laura hopes to become. In one lovely scene, Evelyn beckons the girl to join her in bed. They pull the covers up and embrace; it is a moment of delicate sensuousness, chastely observed as if through the veil of memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up Under | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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