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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The final song on side one, "Ambush," is Marley's reflection on an incident that occurred when he tolerated the Jamaican political system. Marley had agreed to stage a benefit concert for labor party leader, Michael Manley. Days before the concert, professional gunmen ambushed Marley and his friends, killing one...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Reggae Revolution | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

The Fed's draconian measures have first hit the housing industry. Last week the National Association of Home Builders called an emergency meeting in Washington to bewail the high mortgage rates. The group's economist, Michael Sumichrast, darkly predicted that housing starts, which ran at a 1.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Volcker's Pinch Begins | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

The confusion was an invitation for price gouging. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) demanded $50 per bbl. for some oil it put on the spot market and threatened that if its regular customers did not pay the price, NIOC would refuse to renew its supply contracts when they expire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil: The Blackmail Market | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

He stood at a Hertz counter in Eugene, Ore., waiting to rent a car. The man who broke Norm Van Brocklin's records at the University of Oregon, who only two days earlier had set a National Football League record by passing for 300-plus yds. in four consecutive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Redemption of Fouts | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Columnists' condescension toward Carter is widespread in Washington. Witness Clayton Fritchey: "President Carter says he doesn't 'panic in a crisis.' But that's not the problem. The problem is that he panics without a crisis." The sagacious George F. Will has reasoned that "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Soft on Issues, Sharp on Scores | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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