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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very difficult to do the things that I think are in the interest of the country and also maintain the standards of protocol and diplomacy ... I really don't feel a bit sorry for anything that I have done. And I could not say to anybody that given the same situation, I wouldn't do it again almost exactly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Clearly, Sindona has the funds to maintain a luxurious lifestyle in almost any country. Investigators believe that he actually has been living on money that he salted away during his years of wheeling and dealing. In any event, he had no trouble in making bail after his arrest in New York last March: he put up his apartment in the Pierre Hotel, which is worth $500,000, and $ 150,000 in cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Missing Person | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...struggling under the side of the desk in the center of the stair, uttering his own brand of condescension: "apebreath, banana boy, wop, grease ball, pizzabrain, vegetable-peddler;" he was pulling all the plugs on a last ditch performance to maintain grace. And I was unable to respond, my own vicious and maligned thoughts were tripping over each other, filling my mouth with cotton candy, my head with the stuff of insanity...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...much of your undergraduate career will center on some organization, but you'll have to find out about academics here before you'll know exactly what you can handle. At Harvard, it really is impossible to be head of the Student Assembly, the Advocate and the orchestra and still maintain straight...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...through at any stage," said Defense Minister Raqi Riahi, "but we didn't. We support the Kurds' demands for running their own affairs and for being consulted when troops are assigned to the area." A Marivan resident concurred: "We respect the army's need to maintain security. We just want to be involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Deal with The Orphans | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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