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...evil Communism rather than old Russian imperialism. The fact is that for some 800 years the Russian state and its people-in search of ports, good lands, natural resources and "defensible borders"-have been "liberating" others at every possible opportunity. Communism has merely provided the Soviets with a new banner under which to march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1980 | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...when the day was over--when they awarded the gold medal to Eric Hidden and raised the American flag while the official Olympic Band played The Star Spangled Banner--the crowd was momentarily stunned by emotion, and than broke into ecstatic cheering...

Author: By Suzanner R. Spring, | Title: Truths Her Brother Told Me | 2/20/1980 | See Source »

...white and blue crepe paper adorned the auditorium at Columbus College in Columbus, Ga., and a fraternity banner proclaimed RON-TKE-AND APPLE PIE. A student dressed up as a cougar led a cheer for Ronald Reagan. Members of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity presented him with a T shirt and hat, and students inducted his wife Nancy into the honorary Order of Diana. When a couple performing a song-and-dance act pulled the candidate out of his chair, he seemed a bit confused, then joined them. The show over, Reagan delivered his speech somewhat stiffly but with more emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Races a Little Faster | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...only enable the guerrillas to mount coordinated, large-scale military actions. It could also attract sizable new international backing, especially from sympathetic Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the tribes men hoped to select a 100-man Revolutionary Council that could unify the fractious movement under the banner of the United Islamic Liberation Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: We must fight to the death | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

Forebodings of danger have not cramped Nkomo's electioneering style While his ally turned rival Mugabe was sulking in Mozambique, Nkomo held huge rallies for blacks in Salisbury and Bulawayo under the Patriotic Front banner, which he has cleverly appropriated to his own party. He also wooed groups of white businessmen, industrialists and farmers. Nkomo's basic campaign message: reconciliation, political moderation and racial harmony. In contrast to much of his previous rhetoric from exile in Zambia, his official platform makes no mention of socialism or large-scale nationalizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Grim Problems for the Smiler | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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