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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Cigars and Bottled History | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Shah is not angry at all Americans. He writes: "In exile at Cuernavaca, I had the great pleasure of visits from Henry Kissinger and former President Nixon. On the subject of American and international politics, I always found Kissinger much better informed than anyone else. Always true to his principles, he served his country by being fully conscious of the might of the U.S. and of American responsibility for maintaining the balance of power in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Thrown Out Like a Dead Mouse | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...Nunn looked up at an aide last week and marveled at the sudden interest the media were displaying in the defense budget. For at least an hour a day now, Moynihan fields calls from his intellectual friends across the nation; the subject-the new shape of America. Universities have found in the New Yorker a new Pied Piper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...young leftists in July 1978, and for the death of Angel Rodriguez Cristóbal. An activist, Cristóbal was arrested last May with 20 other protesters for trespassing on Vieques Island, which the Navy uses for bombing and shelling practice and amphibious exercises. Last month he was found dead in his cell at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla. His death was ruled a suicide, but pro-independence activists charged he was murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...proportion to the force of its temptation for them. They have been attracted by secular materialism, have tried it in the guise of both capitalism and Marxism, but they have often been disappointed by it, have associated it with the colonial masters who introduced them to it. They have found it dangerously, almost radioactively, corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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