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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine I served aboard a five-ship convoy stationed in the Mediterranean during 1976. Our ships were rusty, overworked and in general need of a good overhaul. The Russian ships we encountered were sleek, efficient and menacing looking compared with ours. I was impressed by the Russians, and at the same time I feared for the navy that had to tangle with them. Let's get our Navy back in shape so there will be no question as to who is No. 1 in seapower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

With the plane question settled, the Administration is now faced with the increasingly difficult task of getting the Middle East peace talks going again. Even before the Senate vote, Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Rafael Eitan insisted that the country's defense required permanent occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights. Said he: "The basic intention of the Arabs has not changed. They want to obliterate us." After the vote, Begin's ever firm attitude hardened still more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: F-15 Fight: Who Won What | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...think it's very important that the U.S. not be identified with the status quo, which, in general, is the way it used to be identified. President Carter has identified the U.S. with change in world affairs, thereby giving us the opportunity to shape the nature of change and provide the framework for it. That's a fundamentally important consideration, in terms of the U.S. relationship with the world as a whole. The U.S. in the past was perceived as being antichange-and perhaps occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME INTERVIEW: Brzezinski: There Has Been Progress | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...part of the ointment. He had first served as a state senate page at the age of 16, but he seemed to have few prospects then. He sold magazines from door to door. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he won a job as an assistant attorney general, then as a state legislator, always feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace was easily defeated in the Democratic runoff. His own judgment of the race was that he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wallace Quits | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Howard Gillette '35, acting general secretary of the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA), said yesterday he "is not in a position to say anything about" a report in Tuesday's issue of the Boston Herald-American, which said Solzhenitsyn will address the annual AHA gathering on Commencement Day, June...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Officials Mum on Report That Solzhenitsyn Will Be Commencement Speaker | 5/26/1978 | See Source »

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