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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS CHAOTIC approach has plagued those outside the government as well. As the authors note, "What has been lacking is a coherent alternative to the unchanging stance of the Pentagon. Public concern with military matters has been confined to individual weapons or foreign bases or bizarre instances of waste. The B-1 bomber becomes a cause, while the cruise missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: The Price of Paranoia | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

While the new regime struggled to take hold, the grim details of just how badly one of Africa's relatively prosperous countries had fared under Amin's chaotic rule began to appear. The Ugandan economy had all but collapsed. Factories were closed, agricultural production had virtually stopped, and there was no hard currency to buy such essential imports as fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Doleful Legacy | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...control and lead to an economic smashup. "The juggernaut is headed for the precipice," he declares in his book. When it reaches the brink, he says, the banks will collapse, Social Security will be worthless, the machinery of Government will break down, and the cities will become chaotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profit of Doom | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

During the February revolt against the hapless government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Kurds took advantage of the chaotic situation to rearm. They stormed army garrisons in northern Iran, seizing huge quantities of weapons. The latest outbreak apparently began over the appropriation by the army garrison in Sanandaj of a large portion of the city's flour supply, as well as the bulk of the town's bread. Feelings among the city's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, were already running high because the local revolutionary courts were dominated by Shi'ites loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Entering a Troubled New Year | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...loss of home ice. The problem here was not one of small crowds and no section 18, but of practice time. The icemen were forced to work out at haphazard hours of the day amd at multiple sites. What resulted from the catch-as-catch-can training was chaotic cohesion and execution during games...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: HARVARD HOCKEY: What Was (Is) the Story? | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

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