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...Only four months after Nigeria's 25.4 million voters re-elected Shagari to a second four-year term, it appeared that a bloodless military coup-or at least an attempt-had taken place in Africa's most populous country (pop. about 85 million) and one of its foremost democracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Radio Coup | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Several factors combine to make Korea--and East Asia generally--at once more complex and more potentially dangerous than Germany. First and foremost, the importance of East Asia to the United States and the world has grown dramatically in the last few years. In 1977 the value of U.S. trade with Western Pacific for the first time exceeded the value of our trade with Western Europe. Korea ranks behind only Japan and Taiwan as a regional U.S. trading partner. Indeed, the GNP growth rates of these nations have been consistently higher than the world average. Between...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: A House Divided | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...would suggest that economic pressure will find and foremost hurt the rich and the affluent otherwise they would not constantly and consistently protest that it will hurt the Blacks. Such sentiments of concern sound hollow in a society where as Carsten shows people are classified by race and discrimination is a way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa | 12/3/1983 | See Source »

...Left-wing literary criticism has not been wrong in insisting on the importance of subject-matter. It may not even have been wrong, considering the age we live in, in demanding that literature shall be first and foremost propaganda. Where it has been wrong is in making what are ostensibly literary judgements for political ends. To take a crude example, what Communist would dare to admit in public that Trotsky is a better writer than Stalin-as he is, of course? To say "X is a gifted writer, but he is a political enemy and I shall do my best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quotable Orwell | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...nearly a million employees, it is the second largest employer in America, behind only the U.S. Government. Its annual spending of $17 billion equals about 4% of all U.S. capital investment. Its Bell Laboratories, incubator of the transistor, the laser and Direct Distance Dialing, is the world's foremost industrial research organization. Western Electric makes 80% of all the telephone equipment used in America, including most of AT&T's 827 million miles of copper wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click! Ma Is Ringing Off | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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