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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer so concerned about the possible threat of Angola to the stability of the region, Moose said. Many of the differences between the two countries no longer exist, he said, adding however, that "there are still many more Cubans there than we see any justification...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: U.S. Official Assesses African Problems | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

...historians would care to push the analogy with the chaos and disintegration of the Middle Ages too far. Nonetheless, a few tantalizing similarities exist between then and now, among them the revival of millenarian sects and predictions about the world's end. Psychics and E.S.P. fanciers, for instance, have dusted off the 1934 predictions of Edgar Cayce: he forecast upheavals at the poles, the sinking of most of Japan into the sea, and the destruction of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. In his recent book We Are the Earthquake Generation, Jeffrey Goodman explains that the latterday mystics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Deluge of Disastermania | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...response to a Waterville, Me., newspaper editorial which criticized the selfishness of the climb, Yates explained, "When I started out I was aware that some form of park regulations did exist and endeavored to climb quickly and secretly in the hope that I would be done and out before the rangers became worried or irritated." Unfortunately, before Yates even entered the park he ran into a ranger...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...politics. The city is set up on a weak-mayor, strong-city council system, which with a non-machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers might ally with Byrne and try to co-opt her. In any case, the people of Chicago will face four years of back-stabbing and bickering while this Dragon Lady of the Midwest, her beloved Boss peering down from his City Hall...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Chicago's Dragon Lady | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Some of them enter the Farm and observe ... They find out that cars exist whose motors are never stopped, whom no one ever drives, whose every need is supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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