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Then a hitch developed: the U.S. Army leaked the "results" of tests on the two tanks, which implied that the Leopard was inferior to the XM-1. Infuriated, the Germans let it be known that if Washington reneged on the tank agreement, Bonn would refuse to go along with the U.S. plan to have NATO adopt AWACS, an American-made flying early-warning system, for which West Germany was to put up a quarter of the $2.6 billion cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: New Troubles for Old Friends | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Those who think they are liberals "will do all in their power to help me gain entry to someone else's school or job," Leonard said. "They will say it's not genetics that make black folks inferior, it's environment. But the bottom line is the same," he said...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Leonard Critical of Decrease In Minority Student Enrollment | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Today, when housewives are asked what they do, they tend to answer diffidently "Nothing really" because they have been made to feel inferior and because the joys and challenges of domestic life are unorganized and unmeasured. Except for a philosopher or a poet, such inner rewards are hard to put into words, and therefore hard to preserve on a cold morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Housewife Blues | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...this week that changed. At a conference in Denver, the AAAS elected 178 scientists to honorary "fellow" status. One of them was Arthur Jensen, a controversial University of California psychologist who has claimed blacks are genetically inferior to whites in certain areas of mental ability...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: In Search of More Fertile Battlegrounds | 2/26/1977 | See Source »

With ten minutes left in the game the Crimson had built up a 28 point lead, putting away an obviously inferior Wheaton squad. But more importantly the 'Cliffe cagers recaptured, if somewhat clumsily, the spirit that took them to the finals in Philadelphia...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Cliffe Cagers Thump Wheaton, 81-50 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

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