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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through to Eilat depends on who controls 1) the Suez Canal, which must remain open to Israeli shipping, or 2) the Strait of Bab el Mandeb at the mouth of the Red Sea between Djibouti and South Yemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Toward a Just Peace | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...commotion. It may be worth mentioning, however, that Pryor's characterizations have nothing to do with the cool black humor of such modern comics as Bill Cosby and the late Godfrey Cambridge. He plays eye-rolling, foot-shuffling, minstrel-show darkies, with a bit of ghetto fast-mouth thrown in. On the other hand, the audience in which this reviewer sat was 90% black, and everyone seemed to be having a great time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Chicken Flickin' | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...when he recounts his surreal dreams, the narrator sometimes seems to be giving an unconscious impression of Woody Allen: "A man with a sack stands in the doorway, and when I walk up the stairs he grabs my ankle and stuffs me into his sack. He sits on my mouth all the way home and later, sitting by his stove, eats hot noodles from my naked belly." Still, such moments are well worth enduring for the author's stern intelligence and overriding awareness of social forces. In his own eccentric way, the city planner is trying to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hind Thoughts | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead pigeon in its mouth for extra effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reno Gets the Bird | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

After recovering from the shock of the Crimson goal, Yale began to pester the Harvard goal mouth again. They almost scored late in the half but Crimson goalie Kacandes foiled Eli left wing Erzwhiler with a fine above-the-head save...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women's Soccer Quiets Bulldogs, 2-0 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

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