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Word: aprils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those pleas, and last week after a presidential commutation, Patty Hearst was freed from a California prison, five months before she was eligible for parole. She had served 22 months and 17 days of her seven-year sentence for her part in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Patty Is Free And Older | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Some time in April, Patty plans to marry San Francisco Policeman Bernard Shaw, 33, her bodyguard while she was free on bond pending her appeals, but she has not decided whether to take his name. "I don't anticipate anyone calling me Patty Shaw," she said. Asked where she could go to escape being Patty Hearst, she replied with a tough edge to her voice: "I don't see anything wrong with being Patty Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Patty Is Free And Older | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...wide margin a new constitution under which rule is to pass from the country's 240,000 whites to its 6.4 million blacks. The transition will take place after the whites, along with 2.8 million black voters, approve a new government in another election scheduled for April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: One Step Closer to Black Rule | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...which he shares power with three moderate black leaders: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Many black supporters of these leaders have already expressed their displeasure over the amount of power that the whites will retain after a new government takes office following the April elections. The whites will still hold 28 of the 100 seats in Parliament and one-quarter of the Cabinet portfolios, and will retain a strong voice over the judiciary, the civil service, the police and army for at least ten years. Though they will obviously have far less power than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: One Step Closer to Black Rule | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

Battling tendonitis and a shoulder separation, Fayer worked on curing her tendonitis, but the separation worsened. Now, with a severely separated shoulder joint, Fayer has to sit out the rest of the season with the prospect of April surgery looming as a final corrective measure...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Weekend in New Haven | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

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