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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political suspects (now ended)--all these have alienated the Catholic community. Whatever argument can be erected in the defense of these as military necessities, no argument can defend the general "tone" of the army's conduct in carrying them out. Despite the denials and counter-accusations, there is little doubt that the army has committed with some regularity acts of gross harassment, beatings, psychological brutalities and other rights violations. That is, it employs 'counter'-'terror' in the true sense of both those words. Even if in part untrue or distorted, newspaper articles, personal testimony and the incidents of harassment that...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: A Bleeding Ulster | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

...played the best we've played all year, no doubt about that," captain Fred Herold said yesterday. "It was a tough one to lose, a real heartbreaker," he added...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Booters Foiled by Brown, Squander Two Goal Lead in 3-2 Loss | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...that are necessary to keep production I growing and bring down unemployment. And businessmen already have plenty of cause for such caution. The deep recession of 1973-75 shook their faith that the economy would keep rising, with only minor setbacks; the double-digit inflation of 1974 made them doubt that they could realistically estimate future costs; the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the fears of energy shortages that followed caused them to wonder whether they could find fuel to power new plants, and at what price. Investment always involves some risk, of course, but in the minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Even Carter's supporters, however, share the nagging doubt that the President has any comprehensive economic policy. Says Donald Kendall, chairman of PepsiCo: "We have a very confused ball game. There are big problems, and people don't know what will happen. With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President, you'd think we would know where we were heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter: a Problem of Confidence | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune, can there be any doubt as to who will emerge the moral victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horseplay | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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