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...undergraduates in Government I on the evils of totalitarianism and the need for a strongly armed America, as well as supervised the dissertations of Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Henry Kissinger, among others. "Whatever I have achieved," wrote the yet-to-be Secretary of State in 1963, "I owe importantly to his inspiration...

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

...dismayed to find that a university newspaper is so patriarchal, chauvinistic, and opposed to freedom of information. I think you owe an apology to all your women readers. Caroline Roberts Providence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against Paternalism | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...speech read by personal envey Sayed Ahmed Marei. Sadat said he began his peace intiative "because I am convinced that we owe it to this generation not to leave a stone unturned in our pursuit of peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 5000 Protest Nobel Prize Ceremony | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character of the law in our justice system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Here Come the Judges | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...workable forms. When practically every politician is a free agent, there is a tendency toward the anarchic, which may be a perfect political reflection of a narcissistic decade. In the absence of party loyalty, officeholders may find it easier to exercise their integrity, although of course they may also owe fealty to some private lobby. In either case, they tend to lose the talent for compromise and concerted effort. Single-issue zealotry, which is rewarded in the new enlarged primary system, can contaminate the entire political process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline of the Parties | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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