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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gravest threat to Gueiler's administration arises, as it usually does in Bolivia, from the armed forces. Three days after she was presented with the red, gold and green ceremonial sash of the presidency, Gueiler was handed a blunt de mand by a coalition of young pro-democratic army officers. Its substance: that she oust all of the high military officials appointed by Natusch, including General Luis Garcia Meza, a right-wing officer who had been named commander of the army. Gueiler was happy to oblige; she selected General Rene Villaroel, a moderate officer, for Garcia Meza...

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

Many people, of course, have known that from the minute Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre found a way to fix images on silver-coated plates in 1839. "Photography was art from the moment the first shutter clicked," insists Graham Nash, 37, a San Francisco musician (formerly of Crosby, Stills and Nash), who owns one of the largest private collections on the West Coast. But only in the past decade has the general public placed photography alongside the other major arts. The first commercially successful New York City gallery devoted solely to photographs was opened in 1969 by Lee Witkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Photo Boom | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...flamboyant career-as a pencil manufacturer in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, whisky dealer, art collector and oil magnate in the U.S.-Ar-mand Hammer has probably never had a worse week. First, the 77-year-old chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. pleaded guilty in a Washington court to a charge of making three il legal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. Then Hammer's oil firm accused the Libyan government of holding 520 of its employees as hostages in a dispute that has turned Occidental's investment in Libya, once considered Hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: Blows at Hammer | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...they can find their souls, while she narcotizes the poor with a Salvation Army soup-kitchen dole that makes them compliant addicts of their own degradation. Somewhat overpowered in the debate, Alexander is also over matched in the role, lacking Richard son's explosive charm and easy com mand. Under Edwin Sherin's impeccable direction, a dozen character sketches in depth are expertly rendered. The British accents are flawless and the set is hermetically sealed in a world of timeless Edwardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Apostle of Life | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...assembly's grass-roots Bills and Overtures Committee strengthened the motion to provide for a complete pullout. The approval was all the more striking because in other respects the assembly was far from conservative; it approved a tough antiwar resolution and passed an approval of abortion-on-de-mand that goes well beyond traditional Presbyterian stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disuniting Church | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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