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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that helped Vorster win a huge majority in last fall's national elections. A case in point: Carter in Lagos criticized injustice in South Africa but made no mention of the fact that Nigeria is a tough military dictatorship; criminals are regularly executed every Saturday on the Lagos beach. As the Afrikaner newspaper Beeld put it: "Morality is binding universally or not at all." On Rhodesia, the South Africans feel that Washington has made a number of strategic errors, initially by failing to use enough persuasive force on the Patriotic Front leaders to make some kind of deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: U.S. Policy Under Attack | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Spaceman. Boston's star southpaw by Southern California and out of Zen Buddhism. He was slightly out of breath, pulling his gray-streaked hair back, squinting his thin tanned face. He talked gently, in a California beach mumble, no show-biz, setting me totally at ease, and then he came at me from the stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

Apart from the weather, spring is a state of mind, one that expresses itself in rituals of celebration. The beach at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for example, is once again a jungle of young bodies celebrating each other's youth and strewing the sands with beer cans. At New York's Radio City Music Hall, temporarily rescued from destruction by being designated a city landmark, the legendary Rockettes observed Easter by wearing bunny ears, and crowds lined up for what was announced as the last show in the 45-year-old art deco theater. In New Orleans, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Time to Play Your Music | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...talented director of Slither and Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming. When a romantic montage concludes with Ann and Charley walking along a deserted beach, the movie becomes as gooey as You Light Up My Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Couple | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...there will be only cursory references to my thesis because I passed it in two weeks ago. For added luck I drove on Summa St. When I was in West Palm Beach...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Warm-ups | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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