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...Even in wartime, they ate and drank well." Demarest has been back to Europe almost every year in the past three decades. But he has also enjoyed traveling to and writing in TIME about more exotic places: the Hawaiian island of Maui in 1979, the Caribbean's pristine Lesser Antilles in 1980. In 1978 he and Photographer Carl Mydans were among the first journalists to travel as tourists through China. Their experiences became a cover story for TIME's international editions and later a book, China: A Visual Adventure...
...forum that was interrupted several times by protestors, three Soviet professors and three of their American counterparts agreed that the two countries should establish closer relations and should together work to aid lesser developed nations...
...West, ideology stands as the principal stumbling block to the adoption of loosely planned economics. For Reagan, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, and to a lesser extent West Germany's new chancellor Helmut Kohl, such a policy stinks of socialism. Yet the "isms" of yesterday seem particularly irrelevant today. Socialism in the East is bankrupt: people are not adequately fed, housed or provided for, Western capitalism seems equally out of breath, insensitive to the cost in human terms of successive crises. The future lies in a break from the constraints of ideology and the embrace of a new, non-sectarian system...
This is a defect it shares with whoever conceived Blue Thunder, which is by far the lesser of Badham's back-to-back releases. The film's nominal plot has Roy Scheider as a good Los Angeles police department chopper ace assigned to test what amounts to a flying gun platform. Once he discovers its illiberal potential, he must fight his way past Malcolm McDowell, an old neofascist enemy from his Viet Nam days now employed as a power-elite gunslinger. After that dogfight comes a showdown with a couple of Air Force jets...
DIED. Temple Hornaday Fielding, 69, guardian of American tourists for 35 years, whose opinionated Travel Guide to Europe has sold some 3 million copies since 1948 and spawned many, lesser Fielding guides; of a heart attack; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. With help from a small staff and his wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with...