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While Westerners fretted about language difficulties and transportation, Soviet officialdom worried aloud about sinister influences. The chief of the Moscow City Communist Party, Politburo Member Viktor Grishin, said Muscovites should be cordial to visitors, but he exhorted them to "stress the advantages of the Soviet way of life ... and repulse the propaganda of alien ideas and principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...knows that a cordial relationship with the U.S. might greatly aid the rebuilding of his country. The real question is whether he has the ability to mediate successfully between radical and conservative views in an untested coalition government whose main bond of unity is opposition to Somoza. "Sergio has all the qualities necessary to be very strong," says an associate. If that judgment is correct, Nicaragua may still be able to avoid the factionalism and violence that have marred so many revolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Sergio Is Very Strong | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...OPEC raises its prices and gas shortages affect many U.S. cities, Americans are now looking to Mexico as a new source of energy supplies. But relations between the two countries have not been as cordial as the Carter Administration might like. Frictions continue over such issues as illegal Mexican immigration, American trade barriers to Mexican agricultural products, and the flow of drugs into the U.S. Moreover, Mexican resentment has been simmering since Energy Secretary James Schlesinger abruptly vetoed as too costly a sale of natural gas from Mexico in December 1977. Carter's visit, however, paved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with L | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...felt sympathy for some of the men around Nixon, especially John Mitchell. He was a gruff bear of a man who had been outstanding in the narrow field of bond law. He was an interesting fellow, cordial, in contrast to the cold and forbidding image many had of him. He went off to prison without a whimper, with a certain poise and dignity. The costliest mistake John Mitchell ever made was taking the job of Attorney General. He simply was not qualified for it." -Confession and Avoidance

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Convict and His Prosecutor | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...final point of contention lay in the persistent problem of Harvard's relationship with the surrounding community. Town-gown relations have never been overwhelmingly cordial in Cambridge, but in 1969 the problems were especially acute. The University, with its vast real estate holdings, received numerous complaints from tenants about high rents and unsafe conditions; the murder of a Cambridge woman in a Harvard-owned building led to a lawsuit charging that Harvard ignored housing laws requiring locks on apartment house doors. In addition, the University's plans to expand facilities in the Medical area, and to clear...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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