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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mostly because of the high price of oil and of imports from industrialized countries, LDCs have sharply increased their borrowing in the past two years. They now owe an estimated $145 billion to rich nations, to agencies like the International Monetary Fund and to private banks. By the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.'s estimate, they will have to borrow more than an additional $40 billion this year. Interest and principal payments are swallowing most of the aid that the poor countries get. The Group of 77 will demand that the very poorest countries be granted a moratorium on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Square-Off in Nairobi | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...love, all ages owe submission," wrote Alexander Pushkin. In his first major work in eight years, Choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, 69, has adapted for Britain's Royal Ballet A Month in the Country, the Ivan Turgenev play about the foolish love of an older woman for a young man. Far from sad and tormented, however, Ashton's musing on middle-age folly emerges as an airy confection of elegant humor, bittersweet lyricism and charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Storm | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...Given all that has happened, do you feel you owe the American people any additional evidence of your credibility -such as the identity of Deep Throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Woodward on the Record--Sort of | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...much depends on the dramatic switch ending concocted for the play that The Heiress seems to owe more to O. Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Ossified Heart | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...short, the article seems too unwarranted and unsubstantiated. I believe you owe an explanation of your motives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RE-EVALUATION | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

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