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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some countries just have no luck with democracy. One of them is Bolivia, a landlocked Andean nation that has somehow managed to survive 188 coups in its 154 years of independence. Five months ago, ending a decade of military rule, Bolivia held presidential elections that alas produced no clear-cut results. Congress then selected Walter Guevara Arze to serve as interim President until another vote could be held next May. Last month Colonel Alberto Natusch Busch, a former commander of the military training school, ousted Guevara in a coup. But Natusch decided to vacate the presidential palace-literally through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Revolving Door | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...stable that Kristy McNichol, 17, is wearing as she sits astride a big mount named Gilford. The tomboy of the Family sitcom series stars this week in My Old Man, a TV movie in which she is Jo Butler, the track-wise daughter of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer, played by Warren Gates. The film is out of a short story of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, but the bloodline is a little thin. Joe Butler, the American boy in Hemingway's tale about seedy racing in Europe between the wars, never got to ride Gilford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Brown scored the gamewinner late in the first period and added an insurance goal in each of the next two stanzas, while a combination of missed scoring opportunities and hard luck prevented Harvard from hitting the mark...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Bruins Blank Icewomen, 3-0, Overshadowing Crimson Hustle | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...aquawomen go back into action Wednesday night when they take on Boston College somewhere near the end of the Green Line. Good luck getting there...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Aquawomen Torpedo Maine, 65-64 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

After last season, when an amazing string of injuries leveled one wrestler after another, week in and week out from November until February, wrestling coach Johnny Lee knew better than to count his chickens before they hatched. This year, however, it seemed Lady Luck had moved to his side. Unfortunately even luck could not prevent co-captain Tony Cimmarrusti from seriously injuring his knce in the Yale Game...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Talented Wrestling Squad Scrambles to Fill Gaps | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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