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The film footage showed weary, bedraggled refugees, some borne on stretchers, some wrapped in bandages, some hobbling along on crutches. Many were aged, others babes in arms. With the all too familiar misery of the homeless etched on their faces, the wretched bands made their way out of Viet Nam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Refugees on the Run | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Boxcar discovery: requests for every remotely relevant document. Also known as "fishing expeditions" and "give us the warehouse," discovery involves use (or abuse) of pretrial procedural rules to delay and wear down the other side.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Boxcars and Rainmakers: A Glossary | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Needless to say, Castle's decision tugs at our sympathy, and several reviewers have speculated that Greene means through this novel to justify in a roundabout way the defection in the '60s of his good friend, Kim Philby. But if we take Castle's side, it is largely because the...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Where the Grass Is Never Greener | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

Still, center-right politicians were careful not to issue triumphal statements, for fear of inducing voter apathy. "The main lesson of the first round is that the French were not deceived by the demagogic promises with which the left hoped to seduce them," said Premier Raymond Barre, adding prudently that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Once More to the Polls | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

These demands are now backed up by a more belligerent, self-confident kind of miner. The average age in the mines has dropped from 49 in 1968 to around 31 today. Many of the younger miners either fought in the Viet Nam War or protested it. They are independent, outspoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Work | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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