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There is a rising tide of bitterness in black America. It existed well before the vicious race riot last month that killed 16 people and sent ugly plumes of smoke into the night skies over Miami. But the violence caught the attention of white America-and that fact too causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Feel So Helpless, So Hopeless | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

The time to move now seemed ripe. An International Red Cross visit had determined that all 50 hostages seized at the embassy were still being held in the compound. U.S. planners had learned that the number of militants guarding the captives had declined. Soon the protective darkness of the nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debacle in The Desert | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

As Zuss, Alice Brown's booming voice and flamboyant style capture the arrogance of her character, a person so awed by the splendor and magnificence of the Almighty that she can never doubt the rightness of His actions. Her performance perfectly complements rumpled David Reiffel's Nickles, to whom MacLeish...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: To Tell the Truth | 4/30/1980 | See Source »

Getting the country back into shape will not be easy. Machel, 46, a onetime medical orderly, came to power as the leader of the liberation movement that led Mozambique to independence from Portugal in 1975. Despite his pleas for whites to stay, most of them fled, leaving the country bereft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mozambique Turns to the West | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

Rather than yielding to the pleas of special interest groups to prop up badly managed and uncompetitive firms, the government usually tries to purge the economy of them as quickly and smoothly as possible. When Japan's shipbuilding industry, which accounts for fully 50% of the world's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism in Japan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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