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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that objective achieved, next on Hanoi's list could be the pro-Western government in Bangkok. "The big question now," says a State Department official, "is whether Viet Nam will be tempted in the future to push farther, perhaps into Thailand." Thai military leaders last week were spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Hanoi Engulfs Its Neighbor | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Part of ETA'S present strategy of violence may be directed toward the country's March 1 general elections. ETA would like to provoke the largely conservative military leadership into seizing power and cracking down on the Basques, thereby increasing ETA's support in its home provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A Wave of Basque Terror | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

The $25 U.S. savings bond was pronounced dead last week, slipping away to join such other relics of the pre-inflationary past as the 5? candy bar and the two-bit shoeshine. The bonds will continue to be sold through Dec. 31, 1979, after which they will be replaced by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bye Bye Bad Buy | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

It was in May 1941, when Hitler was preparing to invade Russia, that the first buyer anted up $18.75 for the first $25 Series E bond. By last year 2.7 billion of them, $67.5 billion worth, had been sold to kids who brought in their pennies and workers who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bye Bye Bad Buy | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Unlike the disputes in last year's walkouts by the dockers, metalworkers and printers, the key issue in the steel fight was not wages but job security. The union wanted a cut in the work week from 40 to 35 hours to stem steel layoffs, which have been running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Working Less | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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