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...procedure that TIME has increasingly used as part of its coverage of late-breaking news around the world, each picture was first converted into millions of computer digits, and that information was stored on tape. Then it was beamed via satellite to the TIME Impact (for Image Processing and Color Transmission) Center in New York City. There Seth Zeitlin, one of six systems managers, received the data on tape and entered the information into TIME's computer system. Finally a high-resolution picture was printed, and Richer could see the photo that Moyer and Kim had selected less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Sep. 7, 1987 | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...blizzard of ticker tape fell from the skies, Peru's most famous novelist stepped onto a rickety stage in downtown Lima. Before him, a crowd of 25,000 waved red-and-white Peruvian flags and chanted "Libertad! Libertad!" ("Freedom! Freedom!"). They then began to shout his name: "Mario! Mario! Mario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Mario Meets Crazy Horse | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...solution would be to make it once again respectable -- perhaps even mandatory -- to tape important discussions and phone conversations for the historical record. The tapes would become the property of the National Archives and could be tightly sealed from all scrutiny for at least two decades, the way that sensitive diplomatic cables were generally treated before the Freedom of Information Act came along. But aside from the legal and practical questions involved, such an idea would face philosophic objections: it could be seen as both an unwarranted invasion of privacy and a dangerous attempt to preserve the privacy of important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: History Without Letters | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...that if he did not cooperate he would never see his family again, they forced him to make a videotaped "confession," in which he declared that he had come to Lebanon to spy for the CIA. After his release last week, Glass said he had spoken ungrammatically in the tape, feigned a Southern accent (to indicate that he was in southern Lebanon), and crossed his fingers in the hope of indicating to viewers that he was acting under duress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon Escape from Beirut | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

...Lebanon after a secret visit to the U.S., foiling a suspected Syrian plot to kill him. Gemayel made it (though he was assassinated one year later). But while the Seaspray-ISA team was in Egypt coordinating the mission with the Israelis, a special operations officer spotted an ISA man taping their discussions, on King's orders. "Young man," the officer reportedly thundered, "this is a CIA mission. Either you put that ((tape recorder)) away or I'm going to smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Army | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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