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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under a single command and mounting a unified campaign in the forthcoming elections. Nevertheless, many guerrillas have been killed in intramural gun fights between the rival factions. Says James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader: "The security forces sit on tops of hills and wait for ZIPRA and ZANLA to knock each other to pieces. Then they move in and kill." In November ZIPRA and ZANLA units clashed 100 miles north of the capital as both sides attempted to gain control of a contested slab of territory before the cease-fire takes effect. To minimize such battles, Mugabe's troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Boys in the Bush | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...costly environmental precautions in the area. Oilmen will mount their rigs on artificial islands built of gravel. Those located in water depths of more than 42 ft., the Government insists, must be left unused for two years, to see if they can withstand the ice; moving ice packs could knock over the rigs, causing oil spills. Moreover, the companies will be allowed to drill only five to seven months each year, starting in November. Reason: at other times the big bowheads, which weigh as much as 45 tons, migrate through the sea, and environmentalists are afraid that the drilling might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hot Prospect | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...industry has always been secretive and hysterical, and the advent of memory chips and voice synthesizers has not calmed things down. The designers of Simon, Marvin Glass & Associates of Chicago, refuse categorically to deal with the press. At the design department of Mattel, in California, "you knock on the door and they look at you through a little hole," according to one industry executive who has visited there. Inside, "these guys are all sitting around, and they've got little computers, and'they're writing down figures and leafing through little books, and they scratch their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...superfly club" claim responsibility for the accident. Their note states: dear broder bok, on behalf of aluminati past and future the superfly club advises you to divest immediately. time is running out and there is nowhere left that is safe. remember us next time your flying and knock on wood, baby. 1325-2025 global smoke signals your sons and arsons...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Message in a Bottle | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...Strauss or Florsheim from setting minimum retail prices on their products, have benefited consumers. But the agency's excesses endanger its important consumer protection work. Says Republican David A. Clanton, one of the five FTC commissioners: "The trouble with the pendulum swinging the other way is that you knock out all the good stuff as well as chastising us where we need to be chastised." But when the final votes are taken on the various committee measures, Congress's antiregulatory mood is sure to result in a less powerful and less controversial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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