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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority, and 350,000 Vietnamese who do not want to live under Communist rule. Ironically, however, the curb on the exodus will only increase the misery of the many people who wish to leave but now cannot. To cut the refugee flow, the Vietnamese have stepped up police patrols along their coasts, and some Western representatives at Geneva now fear that Hanoi is violating some of the same human rights that the conference was convened to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: More Trials for the Boat People | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...wasn't there at the Camp David hair-down sessions, let alone when the Cabinet-level jobs were handed out, was America's premier banker, Walter Wriston. His absence was unsurprising if unfortunate because, along with being the most innovative of moneymen, the Citicorp chairman delivers outspoken opinions with a rapier tongue that belies his early career as a State Department diplomat. In a glass house 15 stories above Park Avenue, he sits at a circular desk (the better to gather aides around to chew over ideas) and, eyebrows arched and wisecracks flying, tosses out some sharp-edged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Of Freedom and Inflation | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...from the lash of the sea. After a devastating hurricane in 1926, many property owners erected groins, jetty-like projections, some of them stretching 150 ft. into the water. They had two purposes: to provide privacy and to prevent sand from being washed away from one place to another along the shoreline by sideswiping waves. The hotels also put up concrete sea walls to protect the buildings. But when waves bounce sharply off the walls, still more sand is carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Costly Facelift for an Old Resort | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...many experts believe, any attempt to contain erosion is futile. After spending millions of dollars on trying to save beaches along Cape Hatteras and elsewhere, the National Park Service decided that in most cases it was better to leave nature alone. But Miami Beach's leaders felt that the survival of the resort was at stake. With the support of the Florida congressional delegation, the Corps of Engineers began what is the largest beach restoration ever attempted. When the corps completes the project in 1981, it will have laid down 10.5 miles of new beach (1.2 miles in neighboring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Costly Facelift for an Old Resort | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...York gays who live in the Greenwich Village area where much of the shooting was taking place were especially upset. Some who managed to get hold of a script protested that Cruising would be an insulting film because it depicts homosexuals as violent and sex-obsessed. Marshaling forces along the fringes of the street scenes and staging protest marches through the Village, the gays demanded that Mayor Edward Koch withdraw municipal assistance for the production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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