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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home now for the deposed Shah is Contadora, an island a little more than a mile square lying 20 miles off Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Part of a necklace of 226 other islands called Las Perlas (The Pearls), Contadora earned its name -Spanish for counter-during the 16th century when it was used by the Spaniards as a place to count their catch from the surrounding pearl-rich waters. In the 1920s, a mysterious disease killed off the oyster beds, and for decades Contadora remained just another of the obscure-if beautiful-islands that speckle the Gulf of Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shah's Haven | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...firm had done this, I'd fire him." Fickle and unprincipled, the authors claim, Burger is a jurist who can write, a very liberal opinion on race discrimination, just so that his critics cannot easily pigeonhole him as a conservative. He is certainly no leader. "On ocean liners," Justice Potter Stewart reportedly told clerks at one point, "they used to have two captains. One for show, to take the women to dinner. The other to pilot the ship safely. The chief is the show captain. All we need now is a real captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Here's Jimmy Carter with 19 warships in the Indian Ocean area, trying to figure out the Ayatullah Khomeini, neutralize Henry Kissinger, keep abreast of the Shah's gallstones, and suddenly this Idaho character wanders into Tehran and tries to take over the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A New Kind of Crisismonger | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Frank Tivan, associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council, said last, week offshore operations in the North Sea, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico were proof that drilling does not damage the ocean environment. "The catch of fish in the North Sea has increased four times. Rigs didn't impede the fishing industry," Tivan said...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Groups Call for Precautions Before Sale of Drilling Rights | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Frank Tivan, associate director of the Massachusetts Petroleum Council, cited offshore operations in the North Sea, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico as proof that drilling does not damage the ocean environment. "The catch of fish in the North Sea has increased four times. Rigs didn't impede the fishing industry," Tivan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groups Organize Boston Rally Against George's Bank Drilling | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

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