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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington, a shocked HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has called for a search of old health files for the region. Back in Utah, a newly formed "committee of survivors" is on the lookout for more possible victims. Before their grim search is over, the "survivors" expect to find a dramatically higher toll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Atomic Victims? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...from a 1937 portrait that is one of the 219 remarkable photographs in this long overdue retrospective volume. No captions are needed to display the range and depth of Evans' artistry. He knew the truth that lay in the luminous surfaces of things, whether they were the grim visages of farmers, the abstracted faces of New York subway riders, the pocked brick of a city tenement or the burnished beauty revealed in a pair of pliers and a wrench. Evans' compositions have a classical austerity, though at heart he was a great American romantic-an artist who celebrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

After the morning session on their final day of talks in Geneva, Vance and Gromyko emerged looking grim and discouraged. Then they resumed negotiations for another four hours later in the day. When they came out, their mood had dramatically changed for the better. Relaxed and smiling, they said they had made enough progress not to have to meet again. They acknowledged that some substantive matters as well as certain details still had to be resolved, but these could be handled by the SALT negotiating teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SALT: The Home Stretch | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...Tehran regime's TV and radio has appealed to Iranians not to allow their country to be turned into another "grim and miserable" Lebanon. But unlike Lebanon, riven by deep religious differences, Iran is a nation of 34 million people who are more or less homogeneous and overwhelmingly (98%) Muslim. What divides Iran today is warring perceptions of the Shah and the direction in which he has pushed his oil-rich remnant of the old Persian empire. A cross section of Iranians interviewed by TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Case of Warring Perceptions | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...world of Richard Helms has been a long struggle against the marauding Russian bear. That is why Helms speaks so strongly about the grim outlook in Iran. Says he: "We ought to go to our NATO allies and make certain that we are all together, and then we ought to sit down with the Russians and make it plain to them that having the Persian Gulf under the control of Communists is simply not acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Time to Send a Public Message | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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