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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since late last year, "democracy wall," along Peking's broad Chang An Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: End of the Wall | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

In fact, the real reason for the wall's demise was Peking's concern that unhindered free expression could lead to a snowballing of discontent against the regime. Earlier efforts to curb dissent-such as the arrest last spring of nearly 30 human rights activists-had only a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: End of the Wall | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Moscow's anti-missile drive has gone nowhere in West Germany. In West Berlin last week at the convention of his Social Democratic Party, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said that the Soviet troop withdrawal was "welcome" but firmly reiterated his support of the NATO plan. At week's end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Maneuverings over Missiles | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Yet if he moves to appease black workers, Prime Minister Botha risks the wrath of Afrikaner hardliners, who abhor his apartheid reforms. Soon after Thozamile Botha's walkout, white union members held an angry meeting that led to an outburst of racial slurs; blacks were accused of "fouling" integrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Strike Tactic | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The horse is Rising Star, played by Let's Merge. It is a great race horse now retired, not to stud but to serve as a corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Call of the Wild | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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