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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together a bipartisan group of Senators who have been meeting with Administration officials to exchange views on SALT. Cranston acknowledges that the treaty "can't be based on trust that the Soviet Union will live up to its terms. We've got to have the ability to monitor their adherence or nonadherence." SALT opponents, who estimate that they have close to 25 solid votes against the pact (34 are needed to defeat it), have even talked with an author of SALT I, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Says Laxalt: "He has been invaluable in giving us perspective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Cautious Senate Begins | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...transport is only one of marijuana's ways north. Colombia has 1,300 miles of jagged coastline, from which it is easy enough to load 20 tons or more of grass aboard freighters, trawlers or large (often stolen) yachts. These mother ships, as they are called, are monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard at a series of "choke points" as they work their way north through the Caribbean. But American authorities have little power as long as the drug ships hover outside the twelve-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Using sophisticated electronic equipment, the smugglers on these mother ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

Since the proposals state that every Faculty member will "normally participate in the tutorial program" and that students will join Faculty members on departmental committees to monitor tutorials, the Faculty may react coolly to the changes...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Guess Who's Coming To Class--Maybe? | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...redeeming mission is actually to discover what happened yesterday: journalism. Even though this obligation regularly taxes its competence, journalism today spends a surprising amount of its energy transmitting what it cannot possibly know for sure. Not only tabloids like the National Enquirer but sober organs like the Christian Science Monitor love to prophesy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Remebrance of Things Future | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards, the A.T.A. provided 35 officers. The New York police department detached some plainclothesmen and mounted patrolmen to monitor the portals. This was something of a departure for the N.Y.P.D., but the convention after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself called the A.T.A. convention manager, Vaughn Bonham, to thank him for selecting the Hilton (a choice made almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Truckin' De Luxe at the Hilton | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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