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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those bare facts seemed suspicious enough in 1974 to touch off a series of newspaper and magazine articles by investigative reporters. The Silkwood case was quickly embraced by environmentalists, nuclear energy foes, feminists and civil libertarians. They saw the Kerr-McGee facility near Crescent, Okla., as an ugly symbol of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Poisoned by Plutonium | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately for those who see the Silkwood saga as a puzzling mystery story, the current trial has been so narrowed that it may not answer some of the most perplexing questions of the case. It will not try to resolve whether Silkwood was so tranquilized by pills to calm a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Poisoned by Plutonium | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

A gang film called The Warriors attracts off-screen rumbles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

As the picture opens, all the gangs of New York City have gathered in convention at a park in The Bronx, where they plot to take over the town, borough by borough. If they cooperate, instead of fighting one another, says Cyrus (Roger Hill), the Jim Jones-like figure who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Flick of Violence | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Of the hundreds of Western Isles, few are as precious to Scots as tiny lona (pop. 90), where many kings of Scotland are buried and where St. Columba landed in the 6th century, bringing Christianity and the Irish art of whisky distilling. In 1693 the powerful Campbells of Argyll received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Island for Sale | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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