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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whenever they traveled, wrote Dudman, "we sought an answer to the central question being asked by much of the outside world: What has happened to the middle-and upper-class city dwellers since the Communist takeover? Repeated interrogation produced no clear answer to the question of 'auto-genocide,'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Silence, Subterfuge and Surveillance | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

The three special events in the Carter presidency were the Camp David summit meeting on the Middle East, last month's action to bolster the dollar and dampen inflation, and the normalization of relations with China. The public reaction to Carter's decisions is still uneven, but it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Virtues of Secrecy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

At one point in his four-day appeal, Bhutto asserted that "instead of making me face this humiliation, I wish they had done revolutionary justice to me," a euphemism for execution. But no matter how the court rules on Bhutto's appeal, his fate poses a dilemma for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Gandhi in the Slammer | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

EVERY PRESENTATION of full-fledged classical ballet is to some degree an exercise in anachronism. Performer and audience alike must willfully assume the aesthetic judgement of another age. Offered wholeheartedly, a classical performance works on us with the poignant clarity of emotional truth; done poorly, it ranges from the banal...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

It has been three frustrating months for Ethiopia's military rulers and their Communist allies. A late summer push by the Ethiopians drove the rebels out of much of southern and western Eritrea. But the drive was blunted when the government troops began to battle a well-equipped 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST AFRICA: An Idi-otic Invasion | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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