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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government is going to monitor the Soviet troops in Cuba. I hope this won't be the same intense scrutiny that let them go unnoticed to begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...important step in this area by approving a $33 billion, ten-year program for the MX ICBM. The movable MX is theoretically invulnerable to surprise attack, so when the Pentagon starts deploying the first of these missiles in Utah and Nevada in 1986, the window of vulnerability will begin closing. The U.S. has also been moving ahead with the $4.4 billion air-launched cruise missile program; the 1980 budget provides $90 million for it. Under the current timetable, the first cruise missiles are to be deployed at the end of 1981 and would probably be launched from converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...navies, notes that possession of a carrier force gives the Soviet Union "an intervention capability in so-called peacetime." Jane's believes that no more carriers of the Kiev class will be built after the first four, but expects a new class of larger Soviet aircraft carriers to begin appearing on the high seas in the early 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now the Minsk | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...Pollard and Bayard Rustin. Though the visit had been scheduled before black-Jewish tensions became inflamed, Rustin said he wanted "to make clear to the Israelis that there are great numbers of black people who want the United States to give Israel whatever support it needs." Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who had refused to see Jackson or Lowery, received the Pollard-Rustin delegation warmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ill-Considered Flirtations | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...disagreement, Volcker has set the terms for a larger national debate from now till the 1980 elections. No one doubts that inflation is the American public's white whale, the unknown menace the government must first locate and then destroy. But experts and laymen alike disagree over where to begin looking. Liberal economists and their political bedfellows argue that narrow monetary policy can't solve domestic inflation when well over half that inflation traces its lineage to the tankered waters of the Persian Gulf. If OPEC intends further price hikes--as it apparently does--then to make headway against inflation...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Riding the Volckerwagen | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

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