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...experienced all those things in her seven months in Nicaragua. She has followed the war by accompanying army troops on patrol, wading rivers and riding horseback into remote areas. Sharing the soldiers' lot, Lopez has slept on the ground, in the back of an East German military truck and in insect- infested peasant huts. "Most recently," she says, "I stayed in a hotel with walls so thin you could see through them. That didn't bother the bats, which squeaked and dive-bombed my cot from the rafters all night long." Other TIME correspondents and editors have reported on Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Mar. 31, 1986 | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...slept through your last midterm, three irate section leaders are demanding papers or else, your best friend has abandoned you for his thesis, and it's pu-pu platter for dinner again. Oh yeah, and it's raining...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: How do Harvard Students Spell Relief? | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

...stay?" I said at the Carmelite monastery. I got to the monastery, which was like The Sound of Music, and these nuns welcomed me. They said, "Cory, you will be very safe here, because they will have to kill all of us before they do anything to you." I slept very well, considering that they had no mattress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: President Corazon Aquino | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while on assignment, causing no small consternation among the rest of the press corps. Some officials were dismayed by the flippant article he produced. Titled While Lenin Slept, it tosses out cheeky descriptions. Three KGB types are slurred as the "kind of lugs who crush walnuts on their heads because it feels good." Said one top U.S diplomat: "It was one of the most damaging things to U.S.-Soviet relations I've seen." But Playboy was pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Trying to Have Fun | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...spent at least three months with the patient during an 18-month period before AIDS symptoms actually appeared, when the disease is believed to be most contagious. Some of the family members had shared toothbrushes, razors and clothing with the patient; half shared combs and drinking glasses; 37% slept in the same bed as a patient, and nearly all had exchanged hugs and kisses. Says Dr. Gerald Friedland, who led the study: "These were households in which an AIDS patient lived in close quarters with other family members, with a lot of the kind of personal, affectionate interaction you would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine: Feb. 17, 1986 | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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