The scene was Allied press headquarters in Paris on a rainy summer day. Facing the half-dozing correspondents, Lieut
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The Most Hated Man In Science: JEREMY RIFKIN
The nation’s foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet.
Religion: Council of Renewal
A fortnight hence in the Vatican, 2,600 bishops of the Roman Catholic Church will meet in a gathering so rare that only 20 others like it have been convened in the 20 centuries of Christian history. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council is what His Holiness Pope John XXIII, who has the Catholic prelate's traditional wariness of words that suggest drastic change, calls an aggiornamento—a modernization.
Time Magazine Masthead
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA: Walter Isaacson TIME INC. CHAIRMAN: Reginald K
Controversial Study Links Catholic Abuse to ’60s Culture and Church Hierarchy, but Offers Few Solutions
A sweeping study released Wednesday covering 60 years of sexual abuse allegations against the U.S.
Border Clash Hurts Kerry Effort to Restore Pakistan-U.S. Ties
Whatever good this week’s visit by Senator John Kerry had done to soothe U.S.-Pakistan tensions was complicated by Tuesday’s firefight between Pakistani troops and a NATO helicopter that had crossed into the country from Afghanistan.
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa, the fly, feisty, mustachioed electrician from Gdansk, shaped the 20th century as the leader of the Solidarity movement that led the Poles out of communism. It is one of history’s great ironies that the nearest thing we have ever seen to a genuine workers’ revolution was directed against a so-called workers’ state.
Newscasting: The Men Without Helmets
The Viet Nam footage he screened on his CBS newscast one night last week was particularly poignant for Walter Cronkite. It showed a mortar bar rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith.
The Presidency: Exposure
“The Kennedy buildup goes on,” wrote James MacGregor Burns, a Williams College political science professor and John Kennedy's admiring biographer, in the New Republic. “The adjectives tumble over one another
How One Nazi War Criminal’s Case Could Bring Others to Justice
Ending a trial that had dragged on for almost 18 months, a court in the south German city of Munich on Thursday convicted 91-year-old John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and sentenced him to five years in prison. The presiding judge, Ralph Alt, said the court found that Demjanjuk served as a Nazi guard at the camp in 1943 and, as such, played a crucial role in the “Nazi machinery.” The court sentenced Demjanjuk to five years in prison, and then set him free, saying he would not have to stay in jail pending his appeal — a decision that provoked a furious response from the families of Holocaust victims.