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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same thing is true of our national will, which Solzhenitsyn talked to us about at Harvard on that June day in the cool rain. We have lost it, he told us, as though he had questioned us and knew our minds. But he had not questioned us and he did not know our minds. It is less than 40 years since the Second World War faced us with an issue which would have torn us apart had we not been free and so answerable to ourselves and to each other. We resolved that issue. We reached an agreement with each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is Solzhenitsyn Right? | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...White House decides that it is time to cool its own tough talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: A Diplomatic Chill Deepens | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Despite the White House decision to cool the tough talk, East-West relations are likely to remain tense for some time. U.S. officials are frustrated over the non-stop buildup of the Soviet nuclear and conventional arsenal, the provocative Russian gambits in Africa and Moscow's failure to reciprocate Washington's unilateral moves in support of détente, such as Carter's cancellation of the B-1 bomber and his deferment of neutron bomb production. There is, in fact, a feeling in Washington that superpower relations may be entering a delicate transition period. Observes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: A Diplomatic Chill Deepens | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Other African countries, notably Nigeria and Tanzania, are also cool to the proposal. They object to the interventionism of former colonial powers, and they argue that any military force should be tied to the Organization of African Unity. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, who has welcomed several of the Carter Administration's previous initiatives on Africa, accused Carter last week of listening to "hysterical voices" in his Government who were exaggerating the current Soviet-Cuban activity on the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: Saving a Country from Itself | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Pocantico Hills that the Rockefellers plan to retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East house, which has a cantilevered deck over the crashing surf, is up for grabs for a cool $1 million. Sotheby Parke Bernet, the agent for the sale, has already issued the word: "If you have to ask about a mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1978 | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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