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But the settlement of the frontier also has a deeper meaning; it is a new turning inward by a continent used to relying on its ties with other parts of the world for its sustenance. The Amazon basin represents a huge region whose conquest and utilizations is one of the...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Deep in the Jungle | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

Kandell, whose years with the New York Times were spent covering the paroxysms of violence which swept Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the early 1970's, is obviously happy to emphasize the hopeful side of the continent's recent history. However, his optimism looks not to the past, but the...

Author: By Gilad Y. Ohana, | Title: Deep in the Jungle | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

The impressionistic, slapdash storytelling is in part about MacLaine's affair with a married politician, camouflaged as a British M.P. but speculated, depending on the continent, to be former Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock or former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The romance, however, is secondary to the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

Nature never seemed so still or so spiritual as in his photographs. In their purity and precision, their balance of epic vistas and exquisite detail, Ansel Adams' photographs celebrated an ideal vision of nature and the American West. That black-and-white vision was of a landscape unsullied by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Those reports have angered Mugabe, who is concerned that they are frightening away much needed investment. The country is undergoing difficult economic times. A severe drought, now in its third year, has crippled agriculture land caused widespread hunger in the region. Formerly one of the continent's exporters of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: Terror in Matabeleland | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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