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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure of it. Having grown up in a backward society nearly overrun by Nazi invasion, he seemed to feel in his bones the vulnerability of his system. It is my nightmare that his successors, bred in more tranquil times and accustomed to modern technology and military strength, might be freer of self-doubt; with no such inferiority complex, they may believe their own boasts and, with a military establishment now covering the globe, may prove far more dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Leonid Brezhnev | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...hostile, militarily formidable Communist neighbors. Paradoxically, the menace from North Korea and Viet Nam has galvanizing, stabilizing effects on the governments of South Korean President Park and Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand. The Philippines, by contrast, is an island nation. Many Filipinos feel isolated from foreign enemies and therefore freer to nurture grievances against their own government and against the U.S. for its support of that government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Dilemma of with Dictators | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Kiely points out that the lack of faculty supervision allows for freer atmosphere for experimentation. Without formal structure, a student can work as much or as little as possible and not have to answer for it. This opinion is echoed by Morphos. "Activities with credit permit less flexibility," she says...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Putting Art in the Liberal Arts | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead of to another southern continent, was that on the contrary, it was not a clean slate, not neutral ground. The myth of blackness, darkness, this 'land of sorrow,' might be a sounding board. 'Before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pink Spider | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Around the world, the siren song of socialism appears to be losing its lure. Countries as diverse as Britain and France, Peru and Algeria are moving away from the creed of nationalization and toward freer market economics. None has shifted quite so far, so quickly, as Sri Lanka, the verdant island nation off the coast of India that the world still knows as Ceylon. Reports TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Score One for Capitalism | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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