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The soldiers spent their four months of basic training learning to fight enemy armies, not to police occupied lands or control riots. The troops have also labored under a series of ambiguous orders as their bewildered generals struggled to find policies that worked. Though Israeli leaders insist that the soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World - empty story | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

A few years ago, Hawking's voice had deteriorated to a labored moan that only his family and a few associates could understand; one of them always stood close by to interpret his words. Then, in 1985, after Hawking nearly suffocated during a bout with pneumonia, he was given a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN HAWKING: Roaming the Cosmos | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

What it had not won, however, was the support of Central America. The same week that the Reagan-Wright plan was announced, the Presidents of five Central American nations gathered in Guatemala City and signed a plan of their own. This was largely the handiwork of Costa Rica's President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roughest Year | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

A good many lawmakers were left cold by the compromise. Liberal Democrats complained that the Pentagon reductions were not deep enough (they are less than half of what they would be under Gramm-Rudman). Republicans griped that the package relied too much on taxes. Several critics said the $30.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

The speaker at an executive council meeting of South Korea's ruling Democratic Justice Party had labored over his speech at home all weekend. He dictated the final version to his secretary, who drafted a single handwritten copy. So when Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo got up to speak last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Suddenly, A New Day | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

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