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"I like the Cameroons team," said Arnold L. Bossi of Cape Cod, adding. "They're just crazy like kids out having a wonderful time for 90 minutes. They're the most imaginative--and launch lightning attacks you couldn't begin to block, like Brazil used to do."

Author: By Richard L. Callan, | Title: Soccer, Spectacle, and Drama | 8/3/1984 | See Source »

Under the French system, however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: I Have to Survive | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

It was an unholy coincidence that many took to be divine retribution. Two weeks ago, Canon David Jenkins, 59, who had publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Bolt from the Heavens | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Polls last week found Labor leading with 44% to Likud's 28%. That voting pattern would give Peres as many as 52 seats in the 120-member Knesset, vs. 33 for Likud. However, one-fourth of the electorate is undecided, and Likud may have an edge with that group. Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next for Israel? | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

In Italy's case, the IMF probably served a useful political purpose in bolstering government policy against parliamentary opposition. More commonly, the fund is a political lightning rod, in part because it is so centrally involved in painful, eleventh-hour policymaking. "People lose sight of the fact that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Lightning Rod | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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