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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former education student at Columbia University, Amin tried to project a statesmanlike image in his first national radio and television address. In an apparent reference to Taraki, Amin rejected "one-person rule" and announced that certain enemies of the people had been "eliminated." He promised to introduce the principle of habeas corpus, to guarantee complete religious freedom, and to reduce frictions with neighboring Iran and Pakistan, which harbors some 185,000 antigovernment Afghan refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Murder in the Mountains | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...quarterback. They had a talented fullback in Cliff Pedrow, a former star Tiger fullback for my alma mater, White Plains High School. But Harvard had kept Pedrow to virtually nothing last year, and he was coming off a 100-yd.-plus multiple-touchdown day against Maine. Still, UMass was certain to be competent--in fact, they almost certainly would be a tough opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eclair in Your Ear | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...mandating the desegration of the Boston and Springfield school systems, bused students returning to their classes in the fall have met the hostility of parents unalterably opposed to their presence, assaults from their peers, and the apparent apathy of elected officials. Kevin White's administration has apparently accepted a certain level of violence as the price to pay to avoid substantive action to solve Boston's racial problems. Five years after Garrity's order was promulgated, students, parents and politicians alike have been forced to accept the inevitability of racial violence...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Boston's Oktoberfest | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

Rogers is raising labor power to a new level, up from the streets, the factories and picket lines and into the safe seclusion of corporate meeting rooms. Unlike the boycott or strike, his corporate campaign does not demand titanic funding, deny the public a certain product, or force a laborer to stop work and fall back on union payments. Instead, it hits corporate directors personally, not just in terms of profits and production. Undoubtedly, Stevens directors who resigned their corporate posts felt the same pounding frustration and anger that Stevens workers feel in their attempts to secure fair employment benefits...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Ray Rogers Hits J. P. Stevens Where it Hurts | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

Carson says that he does not. Basing his case on a California law barring certain personal contracts from being extended beyond seven years, he claims that he has in fact been a free agent since last April-seven years from the signing of his 1972 pact. NBC asserts that there have been three separate agreements since then, the last of which not only gave Carson more money but reduced the hours he has to spend as host of the Tonight show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Family Feud | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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