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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week passed, precious few additional details came to light concerning the Sadat assassination. One theory remained unchanged: that the assassins were members of a small, violent Islamic fundamentalist group, Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight). An outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood, Takfir wa Hijra was responsible for the abduction and murder of one of Sadat's former Cabinet ministers in 1977; now it is implicated not only in the killing of Sadat but in the rioting later that week in Asyut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Mubarak Takes Over | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

...laws and customs that have restricted Black opportunities and mobility for decades, but changes under his leadership have proven largely insignificant, more a paean to his political rhetoric than an indication of substantive change. His regime has accomplished reform, of course, but the reform was simply the natural outgrowth of the progressive posture much of the nation took after the 1976 outburst in Soweto. The five years since then have shown that the system of white supremacy could survive intact without radical change...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Trading Morals for Resources | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...pursuing his economic program, Reagan demonstrated an impressive ability to keep public attention-and his own-fixed on a single subject. Act II will be harder to choreograph. Says one close adviser: "As an outgrowth of the election, it was possible to keep the focus unblurred and put other issues on the back burner. Now, there will be more balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Not-So-Brief Intermission | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...William Boteler of Baltimore, who went to Bolivia a dozen years ago, feels that continual incidents of police torture and murder are an outgrowth of distorted family values. "You have people who don't possess values of responsibility and respect for others," he says. "The threat the military government sees is that we are raising the consciousness of the people, that the people have a right to a voice and vote in their own destiny." During the Bolivian dictatorship's current reign of terror, a number of priests have been beaten up or jailed, and others have fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Beleaguered Maryknollers | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Largely an outgrowth of work done at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Labs in collaboration with the FAA and private industry, the winning system meets two basic requirements. It can be produced in a relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Bubbles in the Sky | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

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