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...Western ambassador recalls that when Anna paid her first official call, this uninvited "companion" sat, silent but attentive, through the visit. When the Western diplomat's wife repaid the call at the Czechoslovak embassy, she discovered the Soviet ambassador's wife sitting in a room within earshot of the main salon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Anna's Agony | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

Weary of the War. "The front is now within earshot," a Western resident of Cairo told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott last week, "but it is still divorced from public opinion." Doubt and disenchantment could soon change that. Cairo's upper classes are plainly weary of the war; each year 15,000 well-educated Egyptians emigrate, many to Canada, despite blocked funds and other difficulties. The lower classes, who account for much of the city's population of 5,000,000, still believe whatever the government radio tells them; the bureaucrats who owe their jobs to the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: In Earshot of the Front | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...cause Nigeria so far has fought only a limited action. Open-air markets operate as usual, and military-age students hur ry blithely to classes. Foreign vessels crowd the port of Lagos. Palm oil, pea nut and cocoa exports are thriving and the economy is strong. Within earshot of Biafran guns, oil wells are pumping so robustly that Nigerian production this year will reach a record 255 mil lion barrels. Asked why they were pro testing the higher taxes needed for the army, participants in recent tax riots in outlying districts were stunned. They had not known that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Grim Anniversary | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...pressing the button, the University of Miami scientist had set off a low-frequency sound projector submerged in 60 ft. of water on the ocean floor. To any carnivorous fish within earshot, the signals probably seemed similar to the noises made by other fish when they are feeding, being attacked or under other conditions of stress. Excited by the apparent proximity of prey, the sharks and other predators greedily converged on the sound projector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marine Research: The Shark Caller | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Nashville, 300 militant mourners marched up to the walls of Tennessee's state penitentiary to chant We Shall Overcome just out of earshot of King's assassin, James Earl Ray, who is in solitary confinement inside a maximum-security cellblock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ANXIOUS ANNIVERSARY | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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