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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natives is domestic work for French and other foreign residents. Even the climate is dreadful: from May to October the temperature averages a windburned 92°. Afars and Issas, in short, is not even a nice place to visit. Yet dropping in on Djibouti last week, at the height of the cool (mid-80s) season, was French President Georges Pompidou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Dropping in on Djibouti | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

NOTHING annoyed "Uncle Joe" Cannon more than the idea of change, and during the eight years he ruled Congress as Speaker of the House, most calls for reform were icily snubbed. From 1903 to 1911, Congress under Cannon was at the height of its power, intimidating-and thwarting-even so aggressive a President as Theodore Roosevelt. Snorted Cannon at one piece of forest legislation: "Not one cent for scenery." Wrote a contemporary scholar: "There is some room for saying Cannon is even more powerful than the President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Uncle Joe Cannon: Iron Duke of Congress | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

During the height of the siege, at least 1,000 artillery, rocket and mortar shells a day rained down on An Loc; one day the number reached 8,000. Colonel Nguyen Van Biet had 1,115 men in his Ranger Group 3 when the Communists launched their first attack last April. After three months of fighting, all but 346 were either dead or wounded. The shelling of the city has stopped, but An Loc is still surrounded by enemy troops, and the fighting continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: A Tale of Two Broken Cities | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...each the Secretary-General, who once jokingly called himself a "secular pope," was quick to assert the authority of the world organization. At the height of the Suez crisis in '56, he dictated the first three pages of a plan for a special emergency force during lunch, had it completed before dinner. Over British and French vetoes in the Security Council and a Soviet offer to deploy its own troops, he managed to get it ratified by a majority of the General Assembly. U.N.E.F. was his most successful innovation. It served as the model for international forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Secular Pope | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

Kleiger made 16 ft. 4.25 in, on his first attempt at the height against Maine, to break his own Harvard record of 16 ft. 1.25 in. Kleiger missed narrowly at the next height, 16 ft. 8 in. Kleiger expects to go over 17 feet this year...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Kleiger Sets New Harvard Pole-Vault Mark; Juniors Give Trackmen Victory Over Maine | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

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