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If Libya, which pumps some 2 million bbl. daily and is the cartel's fifth largest producer, were to take such a step, the additional squeeze on world petroleum supplies would be devastating. Even though Gaddafi has made bombastic threats before and never carried them out, the shares of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What It Will Cost the U.S. | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

One of the strangest, least examined and most persistent of human habits is the absolute division made between East and West, Orient and Occident. Almost entirely "Western" in origin, this imaginative geography that splits the world into two unequal, fundamentally opposite spheres has brought forth more myths, more detailed ignorance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Islam, Orientalism And the West | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

As represented for Europe by Muhammad and his followers, Islam appeared out of Arabia in the 7th century and rapidly spread in all directions. For almost a millennium Christian Europe felt itself challenged (as indeed it was) by this last monotheistic religion, which claimed to complete its two predecessors. Perplexingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Islam, Orientalism And the West | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

It played pretty well up until now. Then Brother Billy thought he would enlarge the script. First came an interview in Penthouse magazine in which the barefooted Billy called Charles Kirbo, the President's adviser, "about the dumbest bastard I ever met in my life" and labeled Hamilton Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Brother Billy Caper | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Peking decides its "people's war "needs some Occidental punch

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Arms Shopping in the West | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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