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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very traditions of a strong power do not allow the leaders of totalitarian states to react directly to pressure exerted against them. At the same time, boycotts weaken realistically useful contacts and diminish the number of levers that can be used to apply pressure in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Advice on Dissent | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...handing. In Iran, where so much is happening but so little is conclusive, a reporter who must return to the same story day after day just hopes events haven't undone what he has just written. His ambition is a humbler one: to describe confusion lucidly, and to allow a comfortable margin for the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: When Seeing Isn't Believing | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...case is based on an Indiana criminal code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pinto Ruling | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Elections for new assembly members will be held today and tomorrow in the Freshman Union and all House dining halls except Kirkland House. The Kirkland House Committeee has delayed elections one week in order to allow more candidates to file self-nomination statements, Patrick Fischer '79, Kirkland House committee chairman, said yesterday...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Votes to Seek Recognition From Faculty | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Sarah V. Carpenter '81, a Mather House assembly delegate, told the assembly University administrators may no longer allow the assembly to reserve meeting rooms on campus if the assembly does not seek formal recognition...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Assembly Votes to Seek Recognition From Faculty | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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