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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This applies not only to his critics in the U.S. One of the chief lessons from the new series of world conflicts is the extreme limit on the ability of all the great powers to determine the course of events. China, despite its pretensions of becoming a global force, met with no success in its efforts to prevent a Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. The Soviet Union, despite its nearly one million troops on the Chinese border, was unable to prevent China's openly announced punitive expedition into Viet Nam. The U.S. lost its own direct influence in Indochina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Black and Blue | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...differently." Concludes a Washington foreign policy analyst: "The whole post-World War ΙΙ era is crumbling. The international rules are such that any small country, or even any band of terrorists, can do more or less what it wants, and given the decline in the ability of the great powers to intervene, there is really nothing that we or anybody else can do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Black and Blue | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

While police doubted press reports that two other gangsters had been killed in the feuding, they agree that all the thieves and witnesses are in great danger. The reason: the successors of the deceased Tommy Lucchese, who led a New York Mafia family, are believed to have planned the crime and to be holding most of the loot. The FBI theory is that Joseph DiPalermo, a capo in the Lucchese group, supervised the plot and the disposition of the money and jewels. The authorities believe that the mob got the cooperation of Lufthansa employees on the inside by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cracking the Lufthansa Caper | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

California's courts have ruled that unmarried cohabitants have the right to bring such an action, and 1,000 or so similar cases have already been filed in the state, including suits by the onetime great and good friends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Comedian Flip Wilson. Actor Rod Steiger found himself sued for $2.4 million by Sherry Nelson, his estranged wife. She is arguing that she is entitled to half of his earnings, including those in the four years they lived together before they were married. Even more bewildering is the suit, now being considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Co-Starring at Last | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

After three hours of hosing, the rock removers once again hauled on their cables. The rock budged, then began to roll, once again burst free of its cables, bounded off a 125-ft. cliff and landed with a great crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, just 50 ft. from Radnitz's house. From the crowd, a mighty cheer arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Rock of Ages | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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