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...rattling sabers as a means of drawing the line against Communist expansion in Central America. The Administration's aim, paradoxically enough, was to focus attention on a supposedly peaceable watershed: the March 25 presidential election in El Salvador, a long-awaited contest in which the outcome is uncertain and the stakes are considerable. With the balloting only a few days away, the Administration was making martial noises in a number of ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Making Martial Noises | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...Wendy's commercials are scheduled to run on the networks through April 1. What happens after that date is uncertain. Says Lynch: "We'll just wait and see. The consumer will determine whether Clara returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Ribbing | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...when war broke out, White was typically uncertain of what he wanted. He didn't know whether to enlist or to go to Cornell and wait for the draft. In the event, he chose Cornell, working as a Farm Cadet the summer before he left to satisfy his feelings of patriotism...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Talk of the Town | 3/20/1984 | See Source »

Moreover, since many chips go into materiel that is used only once, like missiles and bomb fuses, their dependability remains uncertain until they are tested in action. But the Pentagon insists that the National Semiconductor chips pose no threat to U.S. security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Test Case | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...policemen walk on fault lines In six novels and one nonfiction work, Joseph Wambaugh has followed their uncertain footsteps, recording the gallows humor and suicidal despair of California's blue knights. But readers have generally been able to take comfort in the notion that the men were, after all, fictive; surely real life was less melodramatic. In this tragic documentary, no such consolations are possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Borderline | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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