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...showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street is watching the confrontation with keen interest: a Times victory could embolden other publishers to try curbing the labor anarchy that has racked Britain's 15 national newspapers for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Showdown on Fleet Street | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...addition, it might produce a constitutional crisis involving Giscard and a Socialist Premier with conflicting ideological views. There was the possibility too that France might become the first major Western European nation in 30 years to install Communists as heads of government ministries, a prospect that could only embolden the left throughout Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fateful Election | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Though Matthes has been unable to top his own world record in four years of 100-meter backstroke competition, there is nothing like the Olympics to embolden an athlete-even an old one. Says Matthes: "It is going to be harder than ever for me, but I have a chance." Says Naber: "I can beat him. I'm not saying I will beat him, but I can beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TRY FOR A LAST HURRAH | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Mutual Defense. Washington feels that Seoul's anxiety is at least slightly exaggerated; many experts expect Peking or Moscow (or both) to restrain Kim (TIME, May 12). Seoul, however, still has cause for concern. Communist victories in Indochina may so embolden North Korea that it will once again send its forces across the 38th parallel, perhaps gambling that South Korean President Park Chung Hee's repressive regime (TIME, April 28) has alienated the populace. Kim may also feel that the U.S., which has a mutual defense treaty with South Korea (backed by the presence of nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Importance of Sounding Earnest | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Such a weakening of NATO and American tactical capability do not go unnoticed by Moscow. While the Greek defection from NATO will certainly not encourage the Soviets to launch an all out war-U.S. nuclear retaliatory force prevents that-it could embolden the Russians in the Middle East. For example, the Soviet fleet might be tempted in a future crisis to blockade Israeli ports or protect the movements of Syrian and Egyptian warships from Israeli forces. What could be even more disruptive to East-West stability, Russia -despite détente-might dare to intervene in the turmoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Gap in NATO's Southern Flank | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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