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Worried that a wild-eyed professor might create a new killer germ, the town fathers of a New England community anxiously convene to deal with the possible threat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Genetic Moratorium | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Southern Power. The heart of the Carter strength, of course, is the Southern delegates. Of the 3,008 who will convene, about 750 are from the South, and Carter already has 500 of them. They represent almost half his present total and have put him in the position to bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Carter's Plan to Scoop It Up | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Shortly before the Parliament was to convene on Saturday morning, artillery and machine-gun fire reverberated throughout the capital of Beirut. House Speaker Kamal Asaad was forced to drive to the session guarded by a six-truck convoy of troops; other Deputies were escorted by gunmen from their own local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Election Under Fire | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

Rosovsky may also have decided to convene a new ad hoc committee of experts from outside the department to consider the worthiness of Kearns for tenure. In normal cases, Rosovsky puts together a committee to advise him on the appointment after studying the letters of recommendation from the department, examining...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: The Case of 'Professor' Kearns | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

The Chinese party, now in the throes of its own policy and power struggle (TIME, Feb. 23) is still an implacable enemy; last month the Peking press denounced the Kremlin for "restoring capitalism and impoverishing the people." In Yugoslavia, President Josip Broz Tito has ordered mass arrests of people suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Hard Times for Ivan | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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