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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorists are children or grandchildren of 4,000 Moluccan soldiers and their dependents who left their Indonesian archipelago in 1951 out of fear of reprisals for supporting the Dutch against the Indonesian independence movement. The Moluccan exiles in The Netherlands (they now number 40,000) cling fanatically to the dream of a future free "Republic of the South Moluccas" in the Indonesian archipelago. Angered by the refusal of the Hague government to support their cause, seven of the young Moluccans now in prison hijacked a train for 13 days in December 1975, killing three people. At the same time, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: The Commandos Strike at Dawn | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...months off. In the fall, fans and handicappers should have a chance to judge his greatness when he goes back to work at Belmont in the rich handicap and weight-for-age races like the Woodward and the Jockey Club Gold Cup. There is a good possibility of a dream race against Forego, the seven-year-old gelding that has been Horse of the Year for the past three years and is-unless Slew can beat him-the best horse now running. If Slew stays sound, his owners insist, they will race him next year as well. If they persevere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seattle Slew Gallops to a Coronation | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...American dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A community ...of educated... ...men and women | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

After a two-year struggle--during which the Government Department voted to tenure Doris Kearns Goodwin on the basis of her manuscript and then split its vote when the final product, the bestselling "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" appeared--the Harvard Governing Boards resolved the issue temporarily by appointing her to the highly unusual position of professor of Government without tenure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A community ...of educated... ...men and women | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...certain dream underlies the whole scheme of compensation. Its helter-skelter character, after all, is an expression of one overriding national value: the libertarian ideal. It is the intentional absence of central control that produces the unevenness of the final result. The very elasticity that Americans seem to value most produces the disparities that most annoy them: it is at the root of the social and economic mobility that is the very essence of the American scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Big Puzzle: Who Makes What and Why | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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