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...Reagan kept a campaign promise of nominating a woman to the Supreme Court for the first time in U.S. history, as TIME noted in a cover story, "The Brethren's First Sister". She was confirmed 99-0 in the Senate and took her seat on the Court in a wave of celebration ("A New Order in the Court...
...here, all I need is a jean jacket to fight the morning chill. This morning, as I stand up to board, I see a figure out of the corner of my eye: a man clad in a wetsuit, surfboard in hand, running down the street to catch a quick wave before work...
Unlike Reagan, Gorbachev paused to speak with reporters upon his arrival, reiterating Moscow's professed goal of eliminating nuclear weapons by the end of the century. Then, with a wave to the crowd, he and his wife were whisked away by car to the Georg Ots, the Soviet ship on which they stayed in Reykjavik harbor...
...have the Syrians. Damascus mounted a vigorous campaign last week to distance itself from terrorist attacks in the Mediterranean and Western Europe, most recently in Paris, where a wave of bombings last month left ten people dead and more than 160 injured. In an interview with TIME (see following story), Syrian President Hafez Assad denied that Syria had anything to do with the attempted bombing of the El Al jetliner and charged that Hindawi's actions were part of an Israeli plot to discredit Damascus. The farfetched theme was echoed by Loutof Haydar, Syria's Ambassador to Britain, whom Hindawi...
After Bhutto's release from prison last month, her lieutenants fell to wrangling over why the wave of protest against her arrest had never materialized. Intraparty squabbles broke out in Sind province and in more populous Punjab. Particularly distressing was the resignation of the party's president in Sind, Makhdoom Khaliq Uzzaman, who insisted on quitting even though Bhutto begged him to stay...