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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is no serious question," says Clark, "that the Khmer Rouge in attempting to establish a new Cambodia-without family ties, without mail, telephones or even money-committed a form of genocide unknown to mankind since the Holocaust. Yet, one cannot look at the condition of these people today without a sense of anguish. A starving baby minutes away from death has no responsibility or knowledge of Cambodian politics. What human cruelties and failings, one wonders, have reduced tens of thousands of people to the state of dumb, brute animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 12, 1979 | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Hufstedler, however, has never held an administrative job, which led Rhode Island Democrat Claiborne Pell, chairman of a Senate education subcommittee, to question whether she has the "management and organization" skills to administer the new department, which will have 17,000 employees and a budget of $14.2 billion. Her admirers do not share Pell's concern. Said Occidental Executive Vice President Robert Bovinette: "She puts things eloquently, and she has the ability to quickly penetrate complex problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Choice | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

According to one TIME source, "What exactly ensued remains confusing. The vital question is: Who pulled the gun on Park? We have no idea at all, though it is easy to imagine that Kim Jae Kyn made a final plea for the President to change his basic political stance. A tough man and always a soldier at heart, Park could not have changed his mind so easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Mourning and Post-Mortems | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...compound matters, the pool of defensemen is barely ankle-deep. This thinness at the blue line may cause problems later on. "Defense is probably the spot on the team where we can't afford to have guys hurt," Carter says--Asked if defense is the big question mark, Cleary acknowledges: "I don't think there's any secret there...

Author: By Jim Hershberg and Bruce Schoenfeld, S | Title: The Icemen Cometh | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

These big up-front puck artists also lack experience, but the feeling is that a competitive start and no early blow-outs will lead to continued improvement by the obviously-talented forwards. "We're relying on freshmen, and it's a big jump for them," says Cleary "The question is how fast they can make that jump...

Author: By Jim Hershberg and Bruce Schoenfeld, S | Title: The Icemen Cometh | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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