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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This push marks still another turn in Indian militancy. The celebrated cases in which Indian tribes claimed ownership of huge tracts of land now seem headed for compromises. In Maine the Penobscots and Passamaquoddies, who once demanded 12 million acres, or two-thirds of the state, have come down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Chippewas Want Their Rights | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

What Carrington lacks in personal ambition is more than compensated for by the deep sense of noblesse oblige that has inspired his lifelong commitment to public service. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he won the Military Cross as an officer in the elite Grenadier Guards during World War II. An...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's Pragmatic Patrician | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The slickest faction is the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is headed by David Duke of Metairie, La. His 2,000 followers have tried to make racism more respectable by publicly condemning violence and recruiting a variety of middle-class professionals. Duke, 29, a smooth-talking graduate of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Klan Rides Again | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

During the moratorium, the NRC will establish more stringent safety regulations for the 72 nuclear plants that now generate 11.5% of the nation's electricity as well as for the 92 plants still under construction. The new rules will include two of the most urgent recommendations of the presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nuclear Freeze | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Natusch, whose uncle, German Busch Becerra, headed a military regime 40 years ago, lifted martial law and press censorship, then went on TV to pledge a vaguely defined "revolutionary" government of "national leftism." He also agreed to a plan under which he would become the dominant member of a ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Next: No. 189? | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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