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Although the twelve-man Politburo makes its decisions collectively, the new ultrahard Line is widely identified with the growing influence of one man: Andrei Gromyko (see box). The combination of Chernenko's rumored weakness as a leader and his lack of experience in foreign affairs appears to have given Gromyko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Hard Line | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

(2 of 18) who had signed the treaty for the U.S., Jimmy Carter, was under strong attack for vacillation and weakness in his response to Soviet adventurism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Gods of War | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Leisure Spa offered "nude modeling, nude encounters and nude rap sessions" to men who would pay a $10 membership fee-tipping extra, naturally. So what was Roger Jepsen, staunch promoter of traditional family values, doing there on March 15, 1977? Jepsen, now a Republican Senator from Iowa, had many explanations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Encounters: A Senator Tries to Explain | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Physical therapies are helpful not only in relieving pain, but in helping patients get on with their lives despite it. Such treatments, including exercise, whirlpool and massage, are particularly useful for back pain, which is often compounded by muscular weakness. Before Maureen Brennan, 37, of Helena, Mont., arrived at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlocking Pain's Secrets | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Both see the current balance of terror-"offense-dominated nuclear deterrence"-as the moral equivalent of slavery and call for its abolition. Hence the 19th century resonance of Schell's title, The Abolition, and Dyson's description of the nuclear arsenal in Weapons and Hope as "a manifestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arguments Against MADness | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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