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When Angelo came to New York City in July 1985 to take over her Eastern regional responsibilities, she realized that the fashion industry is a source of major news in the area. She began her career with TIME in the L.B.J. era, reporting from Washington on events ranging from Viet Nam War protests to the Watergate scandals and the resignation of Richard Nixon. In 1977 Angelo was named London bureau chief, a job she held for the next 7 1/2 years, through the political emergence of Margaret Thatcher, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, and the Falklands...
Robert Dilger's life revolves around the machinery of war. A former fighter pilot who flew combat missions in Viet Nam, he had persuaded the Air Force to adapt a 30-mm Gatling antitank cannon to its A-10 Thunderbolt close air- support aircraft...
...time during the late '60s and early '70s, when the air in America was full of rage and Viet Nam, Hemingway came to seem an atavistic character who loved the wrong things: violence and war. But Hemingway's reputation as a writer has survived, and grown. Public interest in the man and his work persists in an age that might be expected to forget the long-vanished ghost of the grandfather of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway. His publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, estimates that 1 million Hemingway books are sold each year in the U.S. alone. In the past year...
...installments and would be contingent on congressional agreement that peace negotiations were stalemated. Senate opponents of the aid bill focused on two arguments: that morally the contras do not deserve help and that politically the assistance is a first step toward another full- scale involvement like the Viet Nam War. Said Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum: "Make no mistake, the contras are not freedom fighters. They are U.S.-backed terrorists." Tom Harkin of Iowa warned that U.S. military trainers were likely to be drawn into skirmishes with Sandinista soldiers, who have been crossing into Costa Rica and Honduras in pursuit...
Presidents bedeviled by seemingly intractable problems tend to resort to symbolic gestures. As he wondered how to pay for the Great Society and the Viet Nam War all at once, Lyndon Johnson roamed the White House halls turning off lights to save electricity. In the depths of the energy crisis, Jimmy Carter turned down the thermostat in the Oval Office and put on a sweater. So, as the national furor over the drug crisis continues to grow, it was not altogether startling to hear Ronald Reagan offer to take a urine test to determine if he has consumed any narcotics...