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This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on Chile: Helms fumes over a funeral | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...suspects, has classical myth been rendered with such homely, indeed suburban, protagonists. But for the burning temples in the background one might suppose the scene was a Baltic beach in August. And yet it has a strange, mocking intensity: despite his official position, the old dog could still bite when left to his own subjects, far from the civic view and the official portrait, in his own studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In London, A Visionary Maestro | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pests: A Tiny New Tiger | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...beautiful. Not only would millions of the hungry be fed, but never again would I bite into a sour piece of rubber or peel apart a burger in order to extract the urethane substance like a pair of dirty diapers. Millions and millions of Americans would share in the jubilation. For the few who actually liked the pickles, they would be making a minor sacrifice for a grand cause...

Author: By Bruce M. Kluckhohn, | Title: Soured World View | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...next time I bite into a quarter-pounder with cheese, I'll know I did my part for world hunger...

Author: By Bruce M. Kluckhohn, | Title: Soured World View | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

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