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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans in the many trials still to emerge from the affair, a deepening cynicism and a rootless everybody-does-it syndrome of irresponsibility for individual acts may be Watergate's more lasting legacy. Whatever the outcome?most crucially including the fairness and thoroughness with which the President's political fate is resolved?millions of Americans will still consider the result wrong. Watergate thus is bound to leave a lingering bitterness among at least a minority of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Judge John J. Sirica: Standing Firm for the Primacy of Law | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Injured while on safari in the East African bush, Hemingway's fictional hunter, Harry, died for lack of medical attention. In the same area recently, a real-life American hunter, Rifle Manufacturer Leo W. Roethe, narrowly escaped the same fate: his right leg was badly mauled by an attacking wounded male lion. Members of his party were able to radio the East African Flying Doctor Service, which dispatched a light plane to an airfield in the bush. The plane airlifted Roethe to a modern hospital in Nairobi, where he was patched up and sent home to Fort Atkinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Flying Doctors | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Eugene arrives, all right, only to be enmeshed in a tricky fate that somewhat resembles the ending of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. There a Briton, made captive in the jungle by a fellow Briton, finds that he must spend the rest of his life reading Dickens aloud for his cap tor's delectation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fiendishly Clever Frolic | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...autobiography of a divided soul [Kieu's] has come to epitomize a moral crisis that confronts all Vietnamese . . . Until the Vietnamese people can shape their own destiny, free from the stranglehold of a superpower, countless Vietnamese women and men will see themselves as Kieu-victims of a perverse fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divided Soul | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...critical of Israel. Just two days before the Yom Kippur War, when he received a new Syrian ambassador to the Holy See, the Pope complained that "The Palestinian people, living miserably, plead that their right to self-determination be recognized." Last week Paul also expressed concern over the fate of Jerusalem's holy places-a thorny political and religious issue that will involve intra-Christian negotiations as well as talks between Arabs and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christians and Israel | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

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