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...Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core members, it is widely believed to have been behind the bombings of the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the Gulf Oil headquarters in Pittsburgh in 1974, among other criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Infiltrating the Underground | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

Your peace plan rests on the naive assumption that there is a continuity of policy in the Arab states. Today's government espousing peaceful coexistence is likely to be replaced by a volatile military dictatorship bent on a holy crusade to destroy Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Help for federal convicts is the aim of ex-Lawyer Charles Colson, who served seven months in prison at Maxwell Air Force Base for obstructing justice in connection with the Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon-papers case. While he was behind bars, Colson bent rules to help fellow inmates; outside, he has dedicated himself to bringing them the hope of salvation. Brown leather Bible in hand, Colson, 46, now speaks in prisons and organizes week-long inmate seminars. His most dramatic program has brought 107 convicts to Washington for two weeks of Bible

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...Montreal lumber dealer, Péladeau, 52, worked his way through the University of Montreal law school, bent on becoming a show-business impresario. He abandoned that dream in 1950 to buy a failing bilingual weekly outside Montreal for $1,500. He eventually parlez-voused it into an empire of 20 tacky Canadian newspapers, 22 magazines (most of them sold in the U.S., including the [ikes of Boxing Illustrated and Pioneer West), eight printing plants and an ink-making concern. The firm, Quebecor Inc., had sales last year of $104 million and is listed on the American Stock Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hoagie City Hero | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...have been especially incensed by his repeated use of the phrase "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Carter chose not to accept the standing taboo on the term, which, as used by many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that 1) the Palestinian people exist, and 2) they have legitimate rights. In his sometimes unorthodox use of language, Carter helped induce others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Carter Too Played a Part | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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