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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internal settlement," negotiated with three moderate black nationalists, excludes Patriotic Front Leaders Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, who flew to New York last week to address a session of the U.N. Security Council on Rhodesia that had been requested by 49 African nations. "We would do anything to block the Smith settlement here," said Tanzania's U.N. Ambassador Salim A. Salim, "because otherwise it would have to be blocked militarily on the scene." British intelligence analysts say that two Cuban regiments, as well as 200 Soviet tanks and 20 crated MiG-21 fighters, are now positioned in Mozambique, Mugabe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Agonizing over the Settlement | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...rule in reviewing thrillers is to be elusive. Tell the beginning but never tell the middle and the end. In the beginning, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood) is a guileful craftsman of stage thrillers who has a writer's block. It's a fairly long block, almost as wide and arid as the Sahara. For 17 years he has failed to concoct a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Scalp Tingler | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...former CIA director pleaded nolo contendere last October to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973. His testimony concerned the intelligence agency s alleged efforts to block the election of the late Salvador Allende as president of Chile...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: Helms Gives Unannounced Talk To Students at Faculty Club | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

...After dealing with B.C.O.A. negotiators through the afternoon, U.M.W. President Arnold Miller was walking down the street on his way to dinner when the President's sudden announcement came. The union leader was accosted by an aide who yelled: "Come back right away!" Miller hustled down the block to U.M.W. headquarters, conferred with other officials for ten minutes, then announced that he was "delighted." He said he was urging the union rank and file to ratify the contract "so they can get back to work as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Acts--Just inTime | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Often, the building-block of a Cunningham choreographic sequence is a very basic component of movement, something so radically simple that ordinarily one wouldn't think about it at all. The subject of "Torse," for instance, is change of weight: the disturbance of symmetry when weight shifts from one foot to another, the still points of fragile equilibrium when a dancer balances on one leg, the other crooked in the air behind her. Like a drop of oil spreading through cloth, the point of focus begins to color one's perception of all kinds of movement: a jump becomes weight...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Eloquence of Gesture | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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