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While the Rogers mission found nothing to implicate the high military command, there was what the State Department called "circumstantial evidence of possible security force involvement." Among other things, TIME has learned, the still secret U.S. report notes that Salvadoran National Police Chief Carlos López Nuila neglected to put out an "all points alert" after the U.S. embassy told him that the four women were missing. Furthermore, Defense Minister José Guillermo García, an influential right-wing member of the government, promised but failed to order an alert even though he was specifically requested...
Time: the end of World War II. Berlin is burning. The Nazi high command sends one of its generals to negotiate an equitable peace with the Allies. His sole bargaining chip is the top-secret formula that produces synthetic fuel which has powered the German fighting machine throughout the war. On route to his rendezvous, the Nazi is captured by an American patrol. Then, in a classic scene of capitalist connivance, an American major takes the formula from him, shakes the Nazi's hand and says: "General, from now on, the world is going to be one big happy...
...person who knows where to drill for oil and gas. Small independent firms and major corporations alike are aggressively fighting over geologists, petroleum engineers and geophysicists as though they were free-agent baseball players batting .325. Budding geoscientists with no more than bachelor's degrees can now command starting salaries of $24,000 a year and more. At the Colorado School of Mines, energy firms are booking choice recruiting dates on campus more than a year in advance. Says Joseph Finney, chairman of the school's geological engineering department: "It's a hot market. Everyone...
...Soviet Union, looking for signs of military buildup. About 30 U-2s are still in service, but a new version of the old bird, called the TR-1, is about to rise out of a mysterious Lockheed facility that produces supersecret military hardware for the Air Force Logistics Command. Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, the first reporter ever to tour the plant, filed this account...
...sharply. Giscard is considered a sure bet to win a second seven-year term in the presidential election next spring. Yet a relatively minor scandal has prompted the President to launch a war against journalists. They have responded with angry resistance, but the artillery at Giscard's command is formidable. The three French television channels and the national radio network are all state run. The government appoints their directors, who appoint their news editors, who make sure that little is broadcast that might displease Giscard. Lately the President has taken to referring to "my television," in the manner...