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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion to $100 billion, opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes gun control. His coup in luring right-wing Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie away from the Crane campaign has been important not so much for the money Viguerie might bring in as for the alliance Viguerie has with conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot on the Campaign Trail | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Lawrence's biggest coup was the locally famous Norman-Taylor case. In 1975 nearly 20 agents gave up on a remote airstrip vigil when a smuggler's plane coming in was accidentally spooked and did not return. Changing tactics, Lawrence followed the faint tracks of two trucks that had passed by the site. Forty miles away at 4 a.m. he found tire marks where an airplane had landed on the concrete highway, then a roadside spot marked by footprints, broken shrubbery and more tire tracks. Ten miles later at a dirt turnoff, he found fresh tire tracks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charged that Young had been made "a sacrificial lamb for circumstances beyond his control." Instead of being out of a job, said Hooks, Young "should have received a presidential medal" for pulling off "a brilliant diplomatic coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Finally Macias' own end came. Led by his nephew, Colonel Teodore Obiang Nguema Mbazago, a military council seized power in the island capital of Malabo in a bloodless coup. Said the colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Despot's Fall | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...situation is nearly as tense in Guatemala, where many people have never forgiven the U.S. for a CIA-assisted coup that ousted the leftist government of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Victors Organize | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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