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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's stature as a leader will be greatly enhanced if Andrew Young's replacement is chosen solely because of his competence, even if he happens to be a "traditional, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Foggy Bottom-type."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

How can you say it is a "troubling shift in American attitudes" when people get fed up with inflation and high taxes? Barter is the most ancient of economic systems. If it is indeed an "underground economy," I hope it takes root and becomes the start of a moral and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Maybe Director Francis Coppola should not have bragged to everyone that he was making the definitive film of the Viet Nam War with Apocalypse Now [Aug. 27]. Maybe he was his own worst p.r. man. But what he did do was create one helluva tremendous cinema experience that stunned me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

SALT'S backers acknowledge that the dismay in Congress over the Soviet brigade has given the initiative, at least temporarily, to the treaty's opponents. This has dramatically reversed the situation that existed when Congress recessed for its August vacation, after holding almost a month of SALT hearings. Sentiment then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over Cuba | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

While the rhetoric has soared in Congress, the Administration has struggled to keep the out-of-control issue in perspective. Said a senior White House aide: "We're not trying to make it into a confrontation for the sake of confrontation. We're not trying to shove it up Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over Cuba | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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