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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Einstein's prophetic genius [Feb. 19], his comprehensive intellect, were more than a legacy - they were a promise for the future...
...allow today's politicians to call a second constitutional convention [Feb. 19] would be like doing a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Not only is the casting inappropriate, but it would ruin a masterpiece...
...fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that the front-line units of China's huge, 3% million-man land army and those of Viet Nam's leaner but highly honed 615,000 troops were not embracing. At dawn on Saturday, Feb. 17, Chinese forces, massed more than 300,000 strong north of Viet Nam in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces, loosed a massive artillery barrage on key border positions. Hardest hit were Vietnamese concentrations around the cities of Lao Cai, Muong Khuong, Cao Bang, Lang Son and Mong Cai. The People...
...Kraus, a 22-year-old from Lansdale, Pa., got his decorations says much about the postrevolution confusion in Iran. On the morning of Feb. 14, six weeks after he joined the 20-member Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, he was just coming off duty when he heard the sound of gunfire. Over his VHF radio he heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows...
Amin's problems have been further complicated by a wave of sabotage. On Feb. 3, a fuel depot and two electrical substations were blown up in Kampala, knocking out power and water supplies in the area for three days. The Save Uganda Movement, one of several guerrilla groups operating inside the country, claimed responsibility for the attack. The State Research Bureau, Amin's notorious secret police agency, has arrested hundreds of "suspects," but has failed to crush the guerrillas. With pride, the leader of one anti-Amin group declared in Nairobi: "Our office in Kampala was searched...