Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editors: Your cover picture [Dec. 20] is amusing. It coincided with my concept of President-elect Carter's present status-that of a little boy who learned to swim in mud holes and is now about to jump into a big pond, having no stump or overhanging branches...
...stiff tax on gasoline [Dec. 20] to force conservation! Refuse from a horsebarn floor! Deregulate the price of domestic oil. Result: more revenue for our own oil companies as an incentive for increased domestic production, less dependence on foreign oil, and an inducement for conservation...
...Quincy House and Scarsdale, New York; Dennis E. Kloske '77 of South House and Bremerton, Washington; Lissa Muscatine '76 of Berkeley, Cal., Denise A. Thal '77 of Winthrop House and Huntington Woods, Mich., and Milton M. Yasunaga '77 of Kirkland House and Honolulu, Hawaii, the Rhodes Scholarship Committee announced Dec...
...though it meant exposing the corruption of leading L.D.P. members. He was also widely blamed for the party's setback in last month's elections for the Diet's 511-seat lower house, in which L.D.P. strength dropped to 249 representatives-a loss of 16 (TIME, Dec. 20). In order to continue governing, the L.D.P. has had to co-opt a dozen conservative representatives who ran as independents in the election with Liberal Democratic backing...
...know whether I'm free or still in prison. I've talked about nothing else but my life in prison since I arrived here. " The first political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia, Bukovsky was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation " in Vladimir Prison, about 100 miles northeast of Moscow, when he was unexpectedly flown to Switzerland. In his flower-decorated Zurich hotel room, Bukovsky last week gave an interview...