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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaddafi dreamed up the idea for the congress during a five-month solitary retreat to the desert in 1974. It is the product of what he calls the Third Universal Theory (the other two being capitalism and Communism). As outlined in his single-chapter Green Book, the theory rejects democratic representation in favor of direct participation by the masses. Municipalities, trade unions and professional groups establish committees, which in turn choose delegates to the congress "by consensus." The congress convenes at Gaddafi's whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: Living the 'Third Theory' | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Plains on this day was swollen with tourists-from Los Angeles, Akron, Germany-all eager to be part of this first page of a new chapter in history. They trailed along as Carter strolled two blocks to the peanut house. They explored Billy Carter's service station. They snapped happily as Miss Lillian rolled by in a Georgia state police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Longer a Way Station | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...history Ford may figure as little more than a short, interim chapter, an expanded footnote. Yet it is, at the least, a critical chunk of a history that keeps churning and moving. Ford's call for a pause was characteristic of the man but was not in the tradition of change that is at the center of American life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing Out an lnterim Chapter | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...guide through this gallery of horrors, Newman tries to keep everybody's spirits up with wisecracks. His chapter headings give the flavor: "A One-Way Streetcar Named Detente," "Ize Front," "Paradigm Lost." But the charm of persistent jokiness begins to pall long before the tour is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncomfortable Words | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Though the book has drawn predictable cries of outrage from many doctors and led one physician-reviewer to note that Berman seems to be trying to do for his profession what Jaws did for ocean bathing, others have been more generous. After reading the corrosive chapter on his own specialty, Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley, himself a target of a few Berman barbs, commented: "A lot of fun." A plastic surgeon said that "anyone who is upset does not have a sense of humor." Rockland State Hospital's Dr. Nathan Kline, who is twitted along with other psychiatrists for pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Berman's Spleen | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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