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But is there any freedom in Cambodia? Ieng Sary was not joking last summer when he described Cambodia as a "giant workshop." After a devastating war in which a tenth of the population died and another tenth was wounded, the government seeks rapid reconstruction and industrialization. These policies do have...

Author: By R. LEE Penn, | Title: Red Scare Over Cambodia | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

The show, produced by Film Maker Jesus Salvadore Treviño, tears along at a breakneck pace to the beat of finger-snapping rock music. Regular features include a spin-off of the Laugh-In cocktail party. Kids dance frantically to music; when it stops, everybody freezes while the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By the Numbers | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

But the humorous aspects of The Greatest are only momentary interludes, interspersed with what for the most part is a non-joking Ali who is talking straight from his heart. He tells us what it was like growing up in a poor black family living in the slums of a...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Winner and Still Champ | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

People forget easily, and do their best to ignore the things they cannot forget. I sometimes wonder what would happen if the violence that accompanied school desegregation in Boston were transplanted here at Harvard, if black students here felt the physical and psychic wrath of the white folks for a...

Author: By Peter Hardie, | Title: Black Roots, White Poison | 11/25/1975 | See Source »

Schmidt was only half joking. Since becoming Chancellor 18 months ago, he has stood somewhat aloof from his Social Democratic Party, refusing to get involved in the endless theoretical debates on how democratic socialism should be built. Instead, the cool, pragmatic Chancellor has concentrated on managing West Germany's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Lining Up the Ducks | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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