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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Nikita Khrushchev took his missiles out of Cuba in 1962 has any Russian military departure been as momentous as Egypt's abrupt expulsion of Soviet advisers. Yet by last week, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat must have been puzzled by the reaction-or lack of it-of those countries that stood to gain the most from the Soviet eviction. Premier Golda Meir of Israel had responded merely by reiterating her long-standing demand for direct negotiations. Washington was silent on direct White House orders. Even France's President Georges Pompidou turned down an urgent request from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Limited Options | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...national Democratic politics was one of the odder chapters of recent American politics, surely sufficiently swift to give any man the psychic bends. In his cheeriness, there was some suggestion that Eagleton himself might have had doubts about his ability to take the strain. But overall, he endured his abrupt anointment and excommunication with thoroughbred resilience. As he left the Senate after his final session with McGovern, Eagleton insisted upon shaking hands with a dozen onlookers on the street: "Goodnight folks. Vote for McGovern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Eagleton: After the Fall | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...over the Economics and Finance portfolios. Schmidt, whose youthful good looks help him to outdraw even Brandt in voter-preference polls, is a leading member of the party's right wing. With elections ahead, Brandt wanted to be certain that West German voters realized that Schiller's abrupt exodus did not mean a leftward swing by the Social Democrats away from the recent middle-of-the-road policies that helped bring them to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Unhooking the Locomotive | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

Tokyo is in a swivet over Ceausescu's abrupt cancellation of a visit to Japan that had been planned for early this month. Ceausescu begged off, lamely claiming that he was simply too busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Bucharest Embarrassed | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...statement of Washingtonian resonance: "The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary and business correspondence of the people." Note the common word bind. Suddenly that vital concept is threatened. For with the abrupt increase in rates, the binding would weaken or break. Many a magazine would disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Postal Increases: Publish and/or Perish | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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