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We've got a message and we want to send it." So proclaimed Republican Eugene Lamkin, majority leader of the Indiana house of representatives, last week as his colleagues voted to join the legislatures of 28 other states in calling for a constitutional convention to adopt an amendment requiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Turtle Politics | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Even if the hostility against Sadat's treaty does not reach that level of violence, the Arab opposition will nonetheless be serious. The radical Iraqi government announced last week that as soon as the treaty is signed, it will convene a conference of other Arab states and consider various economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace: Risks and Rewards | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

The ad has not yet been placed, and the convention has not yet been called, but much of official Washington is beginning to be afraid that it might be. Since the one and only Constitutional Convention of 1787, there has rarely been such a determined effort to convene another. Altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shades of the Founding Fathers | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

They would convene in the central pavilion, and Jones would harangue them about "the beauty of dying." All would line up and be given a drink described as poison. They would take it, expecting to die. Then Jones would tell them the liquid was not poisonous; they had passed his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Alarmed by the new tide of refugees, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last month called on the U.N. General Assembly to convene a conference on the entire question, a meeting now scheduled for Geneva in December. Even before that, the U.S. Congress will hold hearings on the refugees'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Barring the Boat People | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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