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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If you've ever been to a science-fiction convention you've seen them in a less egregious form: short, bad complexion, slightly overweight, greasy hair, glasses, copy of Stranger in a Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Staking the Wild Vampire | 7/31/1979 | See Source »

In preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where's Jerry? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Tuesday afternoon, religious leaders: Jimmy Allen, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Robert Bellah, sociology professor, University of California at Berkeley; William Cannon, United Methodist bishop of Georgia; Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York; Patrick Flores, Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso; Archbishop lakovos, head of the

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Camp David Guest List | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

But 1969 proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hapless Vicu | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Benavides is leading an international public relations campaign to get members of the La Paz Convention to extend the treaty. Unless he succeeds, and that is a long shot, government hunters in the Pampa Galeras could start a truly open season on the hapless beasts. -

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hapless Vicu | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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