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Could we not limit quotas to the single group or groups that have been the objects of official, governmental discrimination? This seems like one possible way of limiting the evils of quotas, but is it really? Blacks are clearly one group that have suffered most from official governmental discrimination. But...

Author: By Nathan Glazer, | Title: Affirmative Action vs. Quotas | 3/20/1973 | See Source »

Carter, flaunting a luxuriant red beard and one of his normally outlandish outfits--purple beret, electric blue and yellow sweater, khaki pants with large patches of turquoise, maroon and purple, as well as green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Aging Carter Teaches Youngsters a Ski Lesson | 3/20/1973 | See Source »

Those who refused to renounce the Communists were carted off to the French-built Con Son, 140 miles south of Saigon in the South China Sea, for political reeducation. Of the 8,945 prisoners there, 6,467 are considered Communists. Due to a steady diet of beatings-as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIETNAM: The Other Prisoners | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

By now, the heavy investments are giving the Poles some of the best-equipped shipyards in the world. For example, Polish builders are experimenting with a method of constructing giant cargo ships in two halves and then joining them in the water. The two sections are fitted together with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Red Sea Invasion | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

Now that long-term commitments to their Red partners are running out, though, the Poles are finding a growing market in the West. "We can sell all the ships we produce," Wlodzimierz Korchot, economic director of the industry's trade union, told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott. "We are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Red Sea Invasion | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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