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Dallas merchants say Christmas sales may climb by 25%. Shoppers are packing malls in suburban Houston to buy stereos, TVs and Betamax recorders. Expensive furs, jewelry, silks and cashmeres are brisk sellers everywhere. Many retailers echo the report of a luggage salesman at Chicago's Marshall Field department store: "Customers are buying better quality. It's the old philosophy of being too poor to buy cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spending for a Rainy Day | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...toothed smiles while cruising the wide boulevards, which have been newly rebuilt with pink paving stone. Rifle-toting policemen patrol the downtown banking area because, as one shopkeeper laments, "this is the season of the rateros [thieves], and they know this is a money town now." The better bars echo with the accents of Texas and Oklahoma, since Americans have been quietly allowed in to market equipment and technical advice. Brazilians, Frenchmen and Israelis are also eager to buy Mexico's oil and gas if Pemex does not strike a deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Mexico Joins Oil's Big Leagues | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...children under control! They must die with dignity!" Over the shrieks of the young and the sound of gunshots boomed the baritone voice of Jim Jones, exhorting his followers to spray cyanide deep into the throats of infants and any adults who resisted his order to die. This haunting echo of the Jonestown horror was discovered last week on one of hundreds of tape recordings discovered by the FBI and Guyanese officials at the Peoples Temple compound in Guyana. The tape was on a recording machine that had apparently been turned on just as the mass suicides began, to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Eerie Echoes, Missing Money | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...corporate member who resigned several weeks ago, explains that there "are factions on the board and lots of pressure was put on me." But Forester, who was U.N. chairman for the Special Political Committee on the Mideast Issue, says he still enjoys working on IRC-sponsored conferences. Other staffers echo his sentiments...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: IRC Personnel Problems Declining | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

Other anarchists echo Nason's criticism. "I think it's harmful to delegate authority to other people, like elected officials. It's much better to retain control over our own lives," Ann Kotell, a member of Black Rose, an organization which sponsors an anarchist lecture series at MIT, says. "The state has murdered more people and created more misery and horror than any of the problems it sought to alleviate ever...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, | Title: The Anarchic Ideal | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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