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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altitude SR-71 reconnaissance flights over Cuba; he had stopped these missions after taking office because they had irritated Cuba's Fidel Castro. From the SR-71 's photos, experts will be able to determine whether Cuba's Floggers can carry a nuclear payload. Meanwhile, a group of U.S. Senators visiting Moscow asked Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin about the MiG-23s, noting that their presence in Cuba might hurt the chances of the Senate's ratifying a strategic arms limitation treaty. Kosygin snapped at his visitors that he "didn't need a lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Superpower Smoke Signals | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...portion of the RUS budget designated for organizational loans and grants totals $5250. The group alotted $4430 of the total to seven different activities. The money left over will be used to support new groups which may require funding later in the year, Heather Pavlik '80, secretary of RUS, said last night...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: RUS Gives Money To Organizations Geared To Women | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Erica Rosenberg '81, a member of the committee on loans and grants, said giving a group money does not imply that RUS has endorsed its political views. It is "just an attempt to allow them to air those views," she added...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: RUS Gives Money To Organizations Geared To Women | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...purists, meaning that it was not classical ballet or any recognizable modern dance. Was it acrobatic slapstick, abstract-expressionist mime, some kind of muscular, head-over-heels tableau vivant? The startling truth was that Pilobolus entangled human bodies in ways that no one had ever seen before. When the group performed on Broadway last year for four weeks of near sold-out performances, Critic Arlene Croce admitted that the Pilobolus Dance Theater, to give the group its first, last and middle names, had gone beyond mere ingenuity: "We are shaken out of admiration into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Fungus, Fantasy and Fun | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members of the so-called Liberty group, an anti-Communist outfit dedicated to preserving white rule in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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