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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Telling voters that "this time the choice is clear," Jepsen had hit hard at Clark's liberal record. The Democrat was denounced for being pro-union and for backing costly Government social-welfare programs, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. He paid dearly for his liberal stand on abortion. Right-to-life groups distributed hundreds of thousands of brochures that depicted a fetus and urged votes against Clark. Said a Jepsen aide: "Inflation and taxes really were the overriding things. People are just tired of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And the Senate Bids Farewell | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Haskell's contest with Armstrong was along clear-cut liberal-conservative lines. Haskell never found a way to overcome charges that he favored Big Government and opposed tax cuts and key defense measures. During one debate, Armstrong pointed a finger at his opponent and declared: "Inflation is double digit again and it is caused by Senator Haskell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And the Senate Bids Farewell | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...reasserts itself with a certain amount of resilience. "Everything is cyclical," remarks Stanley Friedman, the Bronx County Democratic chairman in New York. "It used to be fashionable to beat the bosses. Now people are recognizing that you can get strong leadership from an organized political establishment." Still, it is clear that the powers and purposes of both parties are becoming thoroughly circumscribed. It would be lamentable if some day the nation's two great political parties were reduced to performing merely decorative and ceremonial duties, with candidates taking the party label in the same spirit that ships sail under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline of the Parties | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

What the West has yet to make clear to them is that press freedom need not be incompatible with national development, that government-dictated news is no more believable in the Third World than elsewhere and that any "new world information order" should be blessed with fewer government curbs on the flow of news, not more. As the 20th Century Fund's task force concluded: "The practices of a free press may be erratic, even in the West, but the aspirations of freedom should ultimately serve to unite the West and the Third World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Third World vs. Fourth Estate | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...other processes. Wolfe found that the acid etched human skin as well; he often left work covered by first-degree burns. That experience helped turn him toward a medical career. At Cleveland's Western Reserve University, Wolfe studied under famed Pediatrician Benjamin Spock who, he says, "made it very clear that it is not possible to understand people's health problems without understanding the circumstances from which they come." Those circumstances include job and living conditions, as well as diet?all ongoing concerns of the Health Research Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valuable Gadfly | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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