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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abron said Black Panther Party members do not mind working with a former Harvard professor. "There's no problem--he's a very beautiful person. We in the party accept people for whatever they are," she said...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Harvard Administrators Say Energy Costs Will Soon Soar | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...back to life and feeding on the living. (Nobody knows why, although one of Dawn's characters offers this explanation: "My grandfather used to tell us, 'When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth'"). If a zombie doesn't completely consume someone, that person also comes back to life and eats flesh. You can permanently kill them by shooting them or bashing them in the head, but since they multiply rather fast, well--one way or another, they're gonna find you, they're gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

West Germany's Chancellor Schmidt [June 6], "the Doer," is one person we could use. His moral views, political experience and common sense about people and power are impressive. U.S. Government officials could benefit from a strong dose of such leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...immediately hushed by cries of "Silence!" The official continued by asking the verdict for all four defendants. Each time the reply was "Not guilty." Then the official asked for a second verdict, to the charge that one of the defendants had specifically incited another to murder a third person. Again the answer was "Not guilty." The proceedings lasted for scarcely a minute. When the presiding judge, Sir Joseph Cantley, adjourned the court, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, picked up the three pillows he had brought along to pad his hard wooden chair throughout the 31-day trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Vindication for Jeremy Thorpe | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...half the people in developed regions lived in the cities; two-thirds do so now, and 75% are expected to mob the cities by 2000. In less developed nations, heavy migration to the cities has swiftly changed the ratio of urban to rural dwellers. In Third World countries, one person in six lived in a city in 1950; one in three does so today. More than any other trend, the urban boom is "bound to have radical to revolutionary implications for national economic and social structures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULATION: Good News | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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