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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans to run in 1976. Now Chappaquiddick is again an issue, and one that is already being used against him. Twice Jimmy Carter has alluded to it. Republican John Connally has been blunter. "I never drowned anybody," Connally retorted when asked by a reporter about scandals in his own past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Night That Haunts Him | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty staunchly,'' said one senior U.S. specialist. Added a Defense Department official: ''With the scars of the neutron bomb on our back and theirs, they're determined not to let it happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: That Shrill Soviet Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...artists as Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Charles Rosen and the late Gregor Piatigorsky. They supplant in every way the pioneering complete Webern recorded by Robert Craft in the 1950s, also on Columbia. The postman may never whistle Webern's melodies, as Webern predicted. Many listeners may never get past what sounds cryptic and arid to them in his work. But these new discs show to what extent performers have mastered his difficult idiom in the past two decades. Among the highlights: the feathery shading of Soprano HeatheR Harper's pitch in the early songs; the tensile, wire-sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Revolution in a Whisper | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

American officials argue that the international money has partially thwarted the Federal Reserve's attempt to slow U.S. inflation by limiting credit. When the Fed tightens money to restrict loans in the U.S., banks often bring back the funds from the Eurocurrency market. In the past six months $16.5 billion has flowed in, and even savings and loan associations now borrow Eurodollars to finance mortgages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clash over Stateless Cash | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...inopportune a time. Less than a month after the Federal Reserve Board unfurled harsh new measures to whip inflation by holding down the money supply, chagrined Fed officials last week revealed that previously reported money figures had been overstated by $3 billion. Instead of surging in the past two weeks, the money stock had actually declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fed Foul-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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