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...established a guerrilla unit of their own, T.M.T. (Turkish Defense Organization). Violence erupted between the two groups in the mid-1950s, and Turks began to move out of sectors of Cypriot towns in which there were Greek majorities, and establish their own enclaves. Nicosia, for instance, saw a mass exodus of Turks from the south side to the north. Greek lawyers hesitated attending trials at law courts located in what became almost exclusive Turkish enclaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Ancient Roots of Today's Bitter Conflict | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...through college and law school and, since beating his party's machine in 1967, has been the Democratic mayor of racially divided Gary, Ind. An important link between black politicians in North and South, Hatcher has run into problems in the grimy steel city: white animosity, an exodus of white businessmen and a lack of capital to develop downtown areas. But Hatcher-who easily won a second term and will probably run for a third -has involved ordinary citizens in Gary's administration, waged war against corruption in city hall and the police department and obtained federal funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...scattered through 32 states, the economic blow has fallen hardest on New England; nearly half of the 74,000 jobs wiped out or transferred by the cutbacks were located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The closings of the Newport Naval Station and Quonset Point Naval Air Complex and the exodus of a 30-destroyer fleet have lowered the personal income of Rhode Island's citizens by $307 million a year-a loss about equal to the economic damage wreaked in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by this spring's tornadoes. In addition, Rhode Island Governor Philip Noel complains that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ENGLAND: Bases for Sale | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...recent years, there has been an exodus of well-known names from Union, climaxed last winter by the retirement of Theologian Paul Lehmann. Replacements in theology are hard to come by because of Union's new stress on hiring blacks and women: there are simply not enough of either qualified for the posts. Moreover, the faculty has been sharply cut along with the student body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Both the Bible and the Koran make sternly clear the manner in which injury is to be avenged. "Thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth," says the Book of Exodus. In Sura II of the Koran the Prophet advises: "O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave, female for female." Unfortunately for the Middle East, this sense of bitter, retaliatory justice persists to the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Bullets, Bombs and a Sign of Hope | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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