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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Vatican sources disclosed that the Pope will make history again, probably in November, when he calls the 131-member College of Cardinals into an extraordinary session in Rome. In recent years the college has been convened only to elect a new Pope. Vatican watchers speculate that John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Preparing for the Pope | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

In a radio broadcast, Dacko, 49, a former schoolteacher who was the first President of the former French colony after independence in 1960, proclaimed the country the Central African Republic again and promised to "return sovereignty to the people." At week's end French troops flew to Bangui to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Three Down | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

For the winners, the problem of forming a government with a single-vote majority was compounded by the fact that the three non-socialist parties are deeply divided on the country's two main political issues: nuclear energy and taxes. The Conservatives support further construction of nuclear reactors, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: A Vote for Instability | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

As searchlights swept menacingly over the heavily guarded border between East and West Germany, a raggedy patchwork balloon, traveling at a leisurely 10 to 15 knots, floated across the wall of fortifications, minefields, self-firing explosives and guard towers. Minutes later, the bizarre craft crash-landed on West German soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: The Great Balloon Escape | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

On July 4, the Strelczyks and the Wetzels made their way under cover of darkness to a meadow 25 miles from the border. That first escape attempt aborted: the winds were wrong, the gas ran out, and they landed undetected, a few hundred yards short of the frontier. Last weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: The Great Balloon Escape | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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