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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More broadly, the left-wing terrorist groups oppose any movement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico toward statehood. If he is re-elected next year, Governor Carlos Romero Barceló has promised to hold a plebiscite in 1981 to let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence and the status quo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ambush at Daybreak | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The report predicts that a major shortage of food could occur in the next 20 years-with disastrous effects for the U.S. Writes Linowitz in his accompanying letter to the President: "A hungry world is an unstable world ..." The report goes a step further: "The most potentially explosive force in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Target: Hunger | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Captain Larry Kinsey announced to the passengers: "Please act like adults. If this insurrection doesn't stop, I'm gonna put this plane down." The uproar continued. Kinsey, good as his word, landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Some disgusted passengers canceled out, and the rest boarded a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Kindergarten in the Sky | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

If the question is disingenuous, the answers are complex.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

But for Muslims, the dilemma remains: if they are to develop economically, they must import Western technology. To master Western technology, they must send their young to be educated in the West. And that invariably means diluting their culture. Progress means better medicine and other mitigations of life's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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