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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But the cease-fire talks, which began last Friday, raised some divisive issues that could still spoil the conference. Carrington put forth a proposal that could stop the fighting in seven to ten days. It calls for the strict separation of the rival armies and the confining of the Patriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: It Seems Like a Miracle | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

What Carrington lacks in personal ambition is more than compensated for by the deep sense of noblesse oblige that has inspired his lifelong commitment to public service. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he won the Military Cross as an officer in the elite Grenadier Guards during World War II. An...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's Pragmatic Patrician | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps because his thoughts dwelled so much on the West Bank last week, Begin seemed strangely impervious to his coalition's defeat in the Knesset over an amendment to the country's abortion law. Agudat Israel, an orthodox religious party, had joined the Begin bloc in exchange for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Misquoted on a Massacre | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The Forum editors' decision to distribute the text of the Wei trial spelled their downfall. After obtaining a tape recording of the 5½-hour proceedings, they first posted a transcript on democracy wall where it was read by thousands of people during the next three weeks. This limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: We Cannot Be Softhearted | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Although he philosophically opposes any windfall levy, Louisiana's Russell Long, the Finance Committee chairman who is the floor leader of the Senate debate, says the tax is the political cost that the energy industry must pay in order to end crude oil controls. Long, who himself has extensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bit of Good Energy News | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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