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Word: eras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the colonial era, the four-block stretch from the lake to the French opera house was the fanciest shopping street in Indochina. Today the stores are eerily quiet. Little except 60? busts of Ho are available at the Fine Arts Emporium. An elegant photography studio hints at Hanoi's genteel past, but the only examples of the proprietor's craft are dusty portraits of Ho, Che Guevara and Jane Fonda. Inside the massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Here, Everyone Suffers Equally' | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...wanting. Says its chairman, Alan Gottlieb: "There's no question that Steve Symms would be a better Senator on our issue. Church votes the way he does because he'd be tarred and feathered if he didn't." The National Right to Work Committee, Stop ERA and other single-issue groups are expected to work against Church and most of the other "targeted" Democrats as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The New Right Takes Aim | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Even in the euphoria following the historic Camp David agreements last September, everyone knew the hard part was yet to come. While Egyptian-Israeli relations began a new era, the central issue of the Middle East remained unsettled: the fate of the Palestinian people. The Arab states basically favor an independent sovereign state for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a home both for Palestinians already living there and for millions now in the diaspora. The Israelis, appalled at the notion of a hostile state, perhaps run by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, on Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Putting on the Pressure | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Malley further enraged New York fans by persuading Giants Owner Horace Stoneham to move his team from Manhattan to San Francisco. The era of rootless ball clubs began. In the West the Dodgers proved a gold mine and last season drew more than 3 million fans-a milestone in baseball history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Ottaviani's era the Holy Office also had a voice on external matters. In 1949 he signed the decree excommunicating Catholics who joined or aided the Communists, but with very little effect. In a 1953 speech that outraged Protestants, Ottaviani declared that rulers of predominantly Catholic states had a duty to protect "the religious unity of a people who unanimously know themselves to be in secure possession of religious truth." Vatican II rejected such thinking. Years later, he publicly denounced Pope Paul's reformed Mass as "nearly heretical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Cardinal Carabiniere | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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