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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these varied and growing efforts, can the farmers (and their wives) really pull off a nationwide strike? Similar efforts in the past have foundered on the farmers' craggy individualism. Already, 80% of the winter wheat has been planted-a sign that farmers are not exactly slowing down. Says Farmer Harold Klein, who is active in the North Dakota wheat pool, an organization set up to eliminate the middleman in handling exports: "The farmers talk about strikes but go ahead and plant anyway, hoping that their neighbors will do the striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Plowshares into Swords | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...School students now carry plastic identification cards with their pictures attached, but the photo badges will include larger pictures and will save students the trouble of having to pull out an I.D. card to show building guards, Paula O'Malley, action information desk manager at the Med School, said yesterday...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Med School I.D.s | 10/18/1977 | See Source »

...Regional Pull...

Author: By Patricia C. Gadecki, | Title: Freshmen Plan Dartmouth Bash In the Union | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...they did it. Despite lackluster previous performances, despite the loss of two of the team's top players because of illness and injury on the day prior to the meet, the Harriers managed to pull one out of the hat, outrunning Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Topple Brown | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

When the Lebanese army arrives-that could take two to three weeks-three battalions of 350 men each will patrol a six-mile-wide zone along the Israeli border. They will man checkpoints and replace P.L.O. combatants in that area. The agreement is that the Palestinians will then pull back to the Litani; they say they will obey the rules. After all, they point out, it was the Palestinians who first suggested the new arrangement in the south several months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: An Edgy Cease-Fire | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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