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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After following Carter for 16 months, TIME Correspondent Cloud is still fascinated by his complexities: "My own view is that he will either be one of the greatest Presidents of the modern era, or that he will be a complete failure. I see no middle ground for him, no mediocrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: I'm Jimmy Carter, and... | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, who spent two weeks with Polisario guerrillas in the desert, reports that so far the shadowy Sahara war is a standoff. The Moroccans and Mauritanians hold the villages but venture cautiously into the desert for fear of ambush; Polisario fighters as a result roam freely over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Shadowy War in the Sahara | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Andrus' sensitivity to man-made environmental harm was heightened by the Teton Dam disaster in eastern Idaho, which killed eleven people and caused more than $1 billion damage (TIME, June 21). The Government agency that went ahead with the ill-fated project is the Bureau of Land Reclamation−...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Idaho Has a Hot Potato | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Clearly, we must maintain our purposes and our principles. But we risk disaster unless we relate our moral convictions to concepts of the national interest and international order that are based not on impulse but on a sense of steady purpose that can be maintained by the American people for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: America & the World: Principle & Pragmatism | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

By night, New York City, Las Vegas, Tokyo and other cities across the industrialized world are a carnival of wastefully blazing lights. In Rome's Villa Borghese park, thousands of street lamps glow wanly in bright morning sunshine. Thermostats are set at stifling levels in many German homes. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Fiddling Dangerously While Fuel Burns | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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