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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally, Images [Jan. 1] could not have included every event of this sort, but the violence in Lebanon that has caused immense devastation and misery, and threatens to attain wider and more sinister proportions in the region, was absent from your account. A tragedy of this order should have been included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...well. Even as the Chinese were meeting the Senators last week, the Kremlin gained a startling new victory when the Moscow-supported Vietnamese marched into neighboring Cambodia (Kampuchea) and seized Phnom-Penh, capital of the Peking-supported regime. The Soviet Union wasted no time in welcoming Cambodia's new order. Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week told TIME at the Kremlin that his country "supports the People's Revolutionary Council of Kampuchea" (see interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Russia | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Thirteen of the prisoners were released before Alexander took office, while 22 more--who only had their sentences reduced--still have time to serve. Alexander, a Republican, issued an executive order Wednesday barring the release of the remaining 17 until he and Fred Thompson, former minority counsel to the Senate Watergate committee, review each case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Federal Grand Jury Continues Probe Of Pardons by Tennessee Ex-Governor | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

TEHRAN--Perhaps as many as 21 people died in street fighting in Iran yesterday, as the government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar ran into new problems in its attempts to restore order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iran Street Fighting Worsens; Leader Warns of 'Dictatorship' | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

...sure don't get a dissident." Brill understands as well as anyone the litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And the American Dream Did the Rest | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

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