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...favored a blockade through the mining of the ports. If it had been done very suddenly, it would have been very hard for them to reorient their economy without enormous disruption. And maybe the threat of our doing that would have got the hostages released. Today we have to assess the situation in terms of what alternative sources the Iranian authorities have already developed, basically the Soviet Union. In short what would the real effect of a blockade be? Also, what would be its impact on other gulf states? What is the relationship of the Afghan to the Iranian crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kissinger: What Next for the U.S.? | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...explaining about a quarter to a third of the recent slowdown in the growth of labor productivity. This explanation alone is not sufficient, for in 1965-1973 there was rapid growth in physical stock without discernable positive effect on labor productivity. The effects of government regulation are difficult to assess from a macro-economic perspective, but they have clearly contributed to the decline of productivity in mining and apparently in the public utilities sector as well. The decline in R & D expenditures in and of itself probably did not have appreciable effect on the decline in productivity growth. The rise...

Author: By Zvi Griliches, | Title: A Steepening Slide | 4/25/1980 | See Source »

Harvard will distribute a survey to students and employees to assess the performance of the University Police, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Security Survey | 4/17/1980 | See Source »

...number of playing junkets to the Middle East. As a reporter, he finds that his beat reminds him less of his basketball days than of another sport. "Any event­a bombing in Baghdad, a riot in Syria­can have repercussions elsewhere," he says. "You have to assess the angle and spin of developments, as if the area were a giant billiards game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 14, 1980 | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...province with the apparent mission of cutting rebel supply lines by sealing the porous border. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss managed to get across the frontier from Peshawar, Pakistan, for five days and linked up with fighting units of mujahidin­the holy warriors, as they call themselves­to assess their campaign and the scope of the Soviet offensive. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Brave Struggle for Survival | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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