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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His tracking skills came down from a grandfather who hunted wolves in Texas around the turn of the century and a father who ranched and trapped in Arizona. Bernie turned family tradition into a steady paycheck: hiring out to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a "predatory control officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Lawrence followed the tracks deep into the desert to a low adobe house behind a big stand of sagebrush. "It hit my mind that gray sage don't grow that tall," he remembers. "I dropped to the ground and rolled under my truck with my gun. I figured I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Tracks in the Desert | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Even before Andy Young's venture, there were a number of U.S.-P.L.O. contacts, most notably by Milton Wolf, a leader of the Cleveland Jewish community and currently U.S. Ambassador in Austria, who met with Issam Sartawi, a Vienna-based P.L.O. official. Coming on top of the other contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The nation's black leaders were stunned by the departure from the Administration of its most prominent black member. Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., called it a "forced resignation" that was "an insult to black people." To Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, what happened to Young was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fall of Andy Young | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

The memoir that stirs these thoughts is muted in its anguish. The author, Saul Friedländer, 46, now an Israeli historian, was a child of seven in Czechoslovakia at the outset of the war. His parents were nonpracticing Jews, and the religion that Pavel, as he was called, knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Roots | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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