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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the nation yesterday voters endorsed proposals to limit taxes or spending in five states, rejected propositions to extend legal gambling in three states, and favored an ordinance to restrict the legal rights of homosexuals in Florida while opposing a similar ordinance in California...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Nation's Voters Slash Taxes, Reject Betting | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...return for the most favored nation trade status, they were supposed to observe the basic human rights of men, which of course, they did not and do not. Still, they continue to receive the favored treatment," he added...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Rumanian Dissident Discusses Human Rights Transgressions | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

Washington also could help all farmers?and the world?by pushing agricultural exports even harder. For example, U.S. negotiators at the world trade talks in Geneva might insist that the nation will do nothing to open the U.S. market wider to European and Japanese goods unless industrialized nations let in more American-grown food. The Government might also expand its aid?$10 million this year ?to farmers who organize cooperative groups that develop foreign markets. One tempting target: China, which has just begun to buy U.S. meat and grain and could use more. Carter has signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...future of American agriculture is really up to the farmers. Paradoxically, in an enterprise perhaps more heavily influenced by the Government than any other, big and efficient farmers like Pat Benedict are giving the nation a lesson in Adam Smith economics. By carefully calculating their potential profit in a free market, planning their operations around those computations and reinvesting the profits in more output, they are acting the way Smith said capitalists should. The results have been about what Smith predicted: growing production, rising innovation, expanding exports?and reasonable costs to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Argentina is a country rich in every thing but stability. The nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pendulum Left | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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