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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation in the general area. Now there is no chance at all of a rapprochement between Sadat and the Soviets. As a Russian in Cairo remarked: "Even if Sadat turns against the U.S., we would not accept him again. We would prefer to see him overthrown and to deal with someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Sudden Vision of Peace | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...snouts. For $1, they sniff a gauze-covered black jar containing either treated manure or the real thing straight from the pig. The odor is rated on a scale of one to ten, ten being malodorous enough to blow off your socks. No students are getting rich on the deal. Experts hold that the nose gets desensitized after too much exposure to such powerful smells. The daily limit: nine sniffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: The Nose Knows | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...quick effect since the participants controlled 75% of the nation's industry and 90% of its commerce. Last week, in a further show of unity, the front, joined by the Sandinistas, called on five friendly Latin American nations to mediate a ceasefire; the front itself refused to deal directly with Somoza and demanded that he and his family leave the country. It further proposed-when Somoza is gone-a provisional democratic junta and offered three possible "representatives": Industrialist Alfonso Robelo Callejas, 38, Lawyer-Writer Sergio Ramirez Mercado, 36, and Lawyer Rafael Córdova Rivas, 54, who had helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Revolution of the Scarves | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...concerned about food than freedom anyway. "The bottom line of that argument," observes New York University Law School Professor Thomas Franck, "is that the suspension of political rights is a way to increase economic rights." So far, martial law has kept Marcos in power and accomplished not a great deal more. "The trouble with martial law," laments a Filipino dissident who originally supported Marcos, "is that there is no recourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUMAN RIGHTS: An Outbreak of Martial Law | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

There has never before been a sitcom written with the dramatic depth of this one. Other shows may have serious (usually mawkish) scenes or deal with topical issues; Taxi is about serious people. Though the drivers are in some ways conventional TV characters, they are also lost souls, losers set back by life's rude shocks. They dream hungrily of finer things-of love or loftier careers-and when their dreams collapse, they turn to one another for support. In the opening episode, a surprisingly melancholy sitcom premiere, one driver (Judd Hirsch) takes off for Florida to attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1978-79 Season: III | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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