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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern Africa. The black manifesto demanded that Jews bring pressure on Israel to halt "its support of those repressive and racist regimes" in South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Israel does in fact maintain a flourishing trade with South Africa ($120 million last year), and it provided military assistance that has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: With Sorrow and Anger | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

For the ever restless Governor, his shifts to the right did not seem to be paying off. Determined to honor his pledge to reduce spending, he vetoed two bills that would have given state employees a bigger pay increase than he favored. But both vetoes were overridden by a mutinous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Long Hot Summer of Discontent | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

With uniformed police, plainclothesmen and Port Authority officials surrounding the plane, Donald McHenry, Deputy U.S. Ambassador at the U.N., and a team of State Department and Immigration and Naturalization officials sought permission to question Vlasova. Soviet U.N. Ambassador Yevgeni Makeyev refused to allow the beleaguered ballerina off the aircraft. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Turmoil on the Tarmac | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

The only real diversion is provided by Shanghai's 65 movie theaters, most of which open at 6:30 a.m. City authorities have allowed that unusually early opening time to draw some of the jobless young people off the streets. The city's current favorite movie star is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Jobless Generation | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

The Adams family was well off then, but not as rich as it had been. Much of late 19th century San Francisco was built with lumber from the Washington Mill Co., which Ansel Adams' grandfather owned. But around the turn of the century the family lost six mills by fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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