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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--U.S. intelligence sources reported that the Chernobyl nuclear reactor complex in the Soviet Ukraine experienced a meltdown Saturday, was still billowing smoke yesterday and threatened another reactor at the same site...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Nuclear Reactor Burns | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

Cynics might say that he did it for the publicity, and cynics might be right. But a fair reading of the novel suggests more complex motives. A Perfect Spy has all the strengths and some of the weaknesses of an extended emotional purge: intensity, authenticity, flashes of black humor, a tendency to camp on obsessions and nurse the morose. Le Carre's job is not easy. In order finally to put his father to rest with forgiveness and love, he must first disinter the scoundrel, who died in 1975. Draped in the same checkered past as Ronald Cornwell, Rickie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Actually, the schedule of Operation El Dorado Canyon, as the strikes were code-named by Pentagon planners, was dictated by the military necessity of hitting Libya in the middle of the night. It was just one factor in an enormously complex operation that involved 150 aircraft and resulted in the launching of more than 60 tons of bombs. The outcome was far from perfect: the U.S. lost one F-111 fighter-bomber along with its two-man crew and unintentionally caused some civilian casualties and damage. But El Dorado also produced more than a few nuggets of military gold, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Dead of the Night | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Tell a liberal you don't support divestment, and he's liable to call you a paternalistic stooge of the establishment--as if one of the most complex issues of our time is something that can be reduced to one, and only one, moral and effective path...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Illiberal Liberals | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

After almost two days in Riga, a managably small city, Leningrad struck us as sprawling, huge, and complex. We switched teams in Leningrad; by 2 p.m. Rebecca Sheridan and I set off. Three hours later we were sitting with Misha Borlov and his family. Borlov's name has been changed. He is a scientist who was expelled from his job after applying for a visa in 1980. A few years later, officials voted to strip him of his Doctor of Science degree because of his "anti-political activity." Similarly, his wife, a chemist, is now unemployed. His daughter Marina...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: A Midwinter's Journey to the Soviet Union | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

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