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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In 1975, the Obasanjo regime began an elaborate process designed to install a U.S.-style federal democracy without exacerbating the tensions between the dominant tribes. By mid-1978, a constitution was adopted that included key features of the American system, such as a two-house legislature and a chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Black African Vote for Democracy | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

But so far Rees is one of the few responsible voices attempting to rouse Britons to this reality. Margaret Thatcher was helped by the race issue during her campaign. "The moment a minority threatens to become a big one," she said on TV early last year, "people get frightened. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the director never does get around to telling the story of either character's personal apocalypse. Instead, he uses part of Willard's river journey as a pretext to unveil a series of large-scale, self-contained set pieces-an impersonal tour of the war front. Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Yet such is the nature of the entire film that even these hallucinatory passages are not so powerful as they might be. At times they are as anesthetizing as the Viet Nam footage that once dominated TV's evening newscasts. What is missing from these panoramas of death is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Vivian Vance, 66, actress-comedian known to millions of TV viewers as Ethel Mertz, Lucille Ball's best friend and neighbor, on the long running and even longer rerunning show I Love Lucy; of cancer; in Belvedere, Calif. A star in Broadway musicals, the Kansas-born blond was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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