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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently passed city requirement that new businesses provide parking for their patrons may prevent the growth of the space problem, Richards said...

Author: By John C. Scheffel, | Title: City Will Enforce Inman Parking Ban | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...troops "could play a role" as part of a U.N. peace-keeping force in Rhodesia, prompting a White House denial that anything like that was being seriously considered. Moreover, the Washington Post's David Broder quoted Young as saying "no one has any confidence in the British" to prevent open warfare in Rhodesia. Young later assured puzzled British diplomats that he only meant Rhodesia's white minority regime lacked confidence in Britain's peacemaking ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Point Man, or Unguided Missile? | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...warned that the U.S. must not take an isolationist stance in world affairs in the course of a speech to about 400 people at the Science Center last night. Connally said U.S. military superiority and American protection of other countries fosters free trade, promotes world prosperity, and helps to prevent a nuclear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Connally | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...odds still are that the T.U.C. and the government will succeed in hammering out some sort of agreement, if only to prevent the political calamity of an open breakdown of the social contract. The question is whether Phase 3 will be effective enough to serve as the government's main weapon against inflation. If not, the Labor government will find itself in the ironic position of having to rely increasingly on the conservative strategy of holding down inflation by restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Europe's Contentious Winter | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland over a rickety bridge scarcely able to sustain the weight of a handcar. Lancaster persists in this curious decision despite information that spontaneous remission is occurring in all those infected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Derailed | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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