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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many fields come here--actors, writers, painters, athletes, dancers, musicians. If they are to find an outlet for their creative energies, they must do at least one of two things--either find courses in which to practice their art or find the proper extracurricular activity, both of which admit only a limited number of people...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Better Mousetrap | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

...compromise is reached, the U.S. will have played a minimal role in it. The reason: anything that carries Washington's approval is now anathema in Iran. Some Administration advisers admit that open endorsement of Bakhtiar was a serious mistake, and that U.S. policy toward Iran should have remained noncommittal once the Shah's ruling days were clearly over. Particularly unfortunate was a statement by President Carter in January rebuking Khomeini and urging him to support the Bakhtiar government. State Department experts at that time were pretty well convinced that the Prime Minister had only the remotest chances of surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khomeini Era Begins | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...that by 1972 the Soviet Union was already on a par with the U.S., but the discrepancy had been narrowed. And then in the 2½ years before the 1974 meeting at Vladivostok and the second agreement that was reached at that time, even the U.S. could not but admit that the strength of the two countries was more or less equal. What is more, both sides admitted at the Vladivostok meeting that the agreement did not put restraints on either side. And since 1974 it has been another four years or so and another agreement is to be concluded. Could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Teng Hsiao-p'ing | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...rights of corporations. But, then again, he fiercely resists any interference with private rights, whether they belong to blacks, companies-or, for that matter, to Charles Morgan. He quit the A.C.L.U.in 1976 because of the director's objections to his public political comments, writing: "I do not admit the right of any bureaucracy to grant or deny me my rights as a citizen." Most corporate lawyers with a big equal opportunity case on their hands would advise settlement or conciliation. Morgan's move to take Sears' complaint to court, says one civil liberties lawyer, is "bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corporations Have Civil Rights Too | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...years for the rancor that accompanied their divorce to fade before moving to joint custody. Now their daughter Lisa, 8, spends summers with her father and his new wife in Chaska, Minn., and the rest of the year with her mother in Plymouth, 25 miles away. The parents admit that Lisa is still a bit confused: she has two homes, two wardrobes, two sets of rules, and two sets of friends, neither of which has fully accepted her because of her part-time living. Yet both parents feel joint custody is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: One Child, Two Homes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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