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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gutsy, courageous decision," declared Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the 96th Congress convenes in mid-January. "An act of treachery," countered Republican Congressman John Ashbrook of Ohio, a leader of the conservative bloc on Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Squall over Carter's Move | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...cover the dollar devaluation during that time period. The dollar has gone down more than the price increase." Fred Hartley, president of Union Oil in Los Angeles, declares: "It's our fault, not OPEC's. OPEC has behaved as any other group in business would act; it raised its price. Inflation is an international disease in which the U.S. plays the role of having a higher inflation rate than any other industrial nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dance of the Oil Dervishes | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...back then, suggesting that to conduct state business that way was "amoral") But its emergence tells us about the next two years. Jimmy Carter is expected to turn away from the infuriating legislative brambles whenever he can and seek out those areas in which he is sovereign and can act by himself, quickly and cleanly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Virtues of Secrecy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

lohn Updike, novelist: "I have never liked authors who kill off characters blithely. I think it's quite a solemn act and should done with as much pomp and love as Tolstoy does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Today such an act could land a husband in jail. On Oct. 10, Greta Rideout of Salem, Ore., was allegedly raped by her husband John. She called the local Salem Women's Crisis Service, which advised her to call the police. That would have been unthinkable not only in Galsworthy's England but even in Oregon until last year. Common law and most U.S. statutes were clear: with the marriage vows came the assumption of sexual consent. But encouraged by women's rights advocates, the Oregon legislature changed the state's rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Against a Wife's Will? | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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