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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss of two CIA intelligence-gathering stations in Iran, "very serious doubts have been cast on our ability to adequately verify the agreements." In the deleted portion of his speech he was going to add that there are major problems with the substitutes the Administration is considering for the lost listening posts. One is to establish ground monitoring sites in other countries bordering on the Soviet Union. But Glenn feels that these nations are too unstable politically to ensure a long-term relationship with the U.S. Another alternative is to send U-2 spy planes, crammed with special electronic gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Pepper for SALT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...winning films signal the struggle to learn from a lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...tennis player. Murray Robinson, couldn't believe--or perhaps didn't want to believe--that the Crimson's Don Pompan had reached the ball before it bounced twice. Robinson knew that with the score at 4-2 in favor of Pompan in a third-set tie-breaker he had lost his grip on a match that he had begun by taking the first...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Netmen Crush Quakers, 7-2 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...little and they clocked me," said a disappointed Brown. "I can't be happy with the way I pitched, but I'm really proud of the team. This is the biggest game we've had in two years. It would have been a long, long season if we had lost," he added...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Marshall Clouts HR; Quakers Fall, 11-9 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

FELIX MALDONADO woke up one morning to find he lost his face and name. Or rather, Felix Maldonado woke up one morning and discovered he had undergone plastic surgery and been given an alias. All because he had failed in an assassination plot on Mexico's president's life--an act he had performed against his will...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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