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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normalization should come as part of a larger initiative throughout Asia; any current attempts by the State Department to pursue coherent Asian policies fail in face of the depressing fact that the U.S. lacks regular relations with both Vietnam and her most important and presently unfriendly neighbor, China...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: If Not Now, When? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...seminarian's room and scornfully waved his hand at the Vatican vista outside the window. "All that?all that imperial paraphernalia. All that isolation of the Pope. All that medieval remoteness and inheritance that makes Europeans think that the church is only Western. All that tightness that makes them fail to understand that young countries like mine want something different. They want simplicity. They want Jesus Christ. All that, all that must change." Fifty hours later, Karol Wojtyla stepped into the fisherman's shoes and, in incalculable ways, perhaps the change has begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Objections have been raised because some students who agree to fast then buy food outside Harvard dining halls. In doing so, the students fail to realize the significance of the fast, Carol Thorne, a spokesman for CHUL, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHUL Adopts New Guidelines For Fasting | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...Teamsters Union gave Carter's inflation program unexpected, though conditional support yesterday, while Republican critics predicted the program would fail, and mandatory controls would be implemented...

Author: By Compiled FROM Dispatches, | Title: Carter Names Kahn Anti-Inflation Chief; Dollar Slips to All-Time Record Low | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Westerners cannot fail to be fascinated by the living standards of the Chinese; many Chi nese in turn are almost as curious about details of mei-kuo - American - life. In the People's Republic, cash earnings are minuscule, but its people pay no income taxes, housing costs are nominal or nonexistent, medical care and education are virtually free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: A Tale of Two Families | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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