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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This inaction has allowed some voices of hate to win a wider hearing than they might have had otherwise. For instance, the National Front, as the only political group actually encouraging violence against minorities, has achieved notoriety beyond its membership of 20,000 or so with scare tactics and street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

But so far Rees is one of the few responsible voices attempting to rouse Britons to this reality. Margaret Thatcher was helped by the race issue during her campaign. "The moment a minority threatens to become a big one," she said on TV early last year, "people get frightened. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Since then, rail and bus services and housing programs have been improved. Now it looks as if Soweto may get electricity too. A consortium of South African banks has begun to issue government-guaranteed loans for a $177 million electrification program. If all goes according to plan, some 22,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Power to the People | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Some of the rules on sexual behavior seemed to have been designed for a Victorian boarding school for boys. "When out on a date, be sure to head home early." "Refrain from premarital sex even when the girl is your fiancee." "If you go all the way, marry her quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sex Code for Cops | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps if Coppola had succeeded in his efforts to recruit a star for the part, Willard might have commanded an audience's interest and empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Making of a Quagmire | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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