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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people. "There is no community in Argentina," laments H. A. Murena, a noted Argentine novelist. "We do not form a body, though we may form a conglomeration. Instead of stability, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated by coups d'état." Adds Eduardo Roca, an eminent jurist and diplomat: "Argentina has no soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: An Old Dictator Tries Again | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are experimenting with a technique that could enable physicians to determine with precision whether a bone is strong enough to bear weight. So far, their research has focused exclusively on a long leg bone, the tibia, to which a vibrating machine is attached. After the bone is vibrated at various...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Nov. 13, 1972 | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...bombers to hit unauthorized targets. More light may soon be cast on the question by the witness of an eight-man international team that last week flew from Moscow for a two-week fact-finding trip through North Viet Nam. Among its members: Sean McBride, the respected Irish jurist who is head of Amnesty International, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: The Battle of the Dikes | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...analysis will be entirely impartial," said Lord Pearce, the retired British jurist, when the 20-member Pearce Commission ended its eight-week fact-finding mission in Rhodesia in March. The commission's task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Massive Rejection | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...someone once observed, but masters seldom know their servants. The thesis has been overwhelmingly proved during the past six weeks in Rhodesia, where the white man is customarily called "boss" and the black man "boy." Since early January, a commission of British investigators headed by Lord Pearce, a noted jurist, has been canvassing the country to test the acceptability of Britain's proposed agreement with Prime Minister Ian Smith's white regime. The agreement would give the blacks, who outnumber the whites 22 to 1, a faint hope of coming to power in Rhodesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Blacks Vote No | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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