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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among them Stanford, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C., although these schools have made appointments for Iranian students at local INS offices. Clark Coan, director of foreign student services at the University of Kansas, says that his office has made contact with most of the 269 Iranians on campus. But if some fail to show up to register, Coan adds, "we won't go out and hunt them down. That's an INS problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Meanwhile, Trouble at Home | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...intention of altering the long-range goal of Nationalist policy: maintaining white sovereignty in South Africa as head of a "constellation of states," that might include ten quasi-autonomous tribal homelands, as well as Zambia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as a bulwark against Communist expansion. If these measures fail to gain South Africa's security, some Afrikaners are contemplating more drastic steps. Predicted an influential Afrikaner last week: "In ten years' time, the army will appoint the civilians, and no one, black or white, will have to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Putting a Pretty Face on Apartheid | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...NCAA regulations state that the regional finals must be played on or before Tuesday, Nov. 24th, the exact date being determined by the athletic directors of the two participants. If the athletic directors fail to reach an agreement, the head of the district tournament committee will settle the dispute...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Harvard Hurt by Decision To Alter NCAA Schedule | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

With people starving throughout the world, I fail to understand how the U.S. can afford to sell huge quantities of wheat to the Soviet Union so that the Communists can continue to skimp on their agricultural infrastructure in favor of weapons production. Napoleon said it: "An army travels on its stomach." If the Soviets are hungry, let them eat guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1979 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...30th book, .Singer corrects the citation. His fantasy is definitively inexhaustible. As for the microchaos, it is neither micro nor chaotic. It is as large and mysteriously ordered as the universe he ponders or the Polish village and villagers he knows by heart. No one familiar with Singer could fail to recognize his songs. Here again are the doomed Jews of the shtetl and the voluble retirees of Miami's gelt coast, the pious simpletons and the demons who can possess even the innocent spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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