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While taking an increasingly hard line with the Soviet Union, the Carter Administration has simultaneously?and for the most part quietly???been seeking For some time to improve relations with the Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe. The U.S. objective is to encourage political liberalization and relative independence inside the East bloc. Part of the reason for actively pursuing that goal is Washington's hope that some day Moscow will find itself with more to worry about close to home, and thus be less inclined to stir up trouble far away, in Africa, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter tries a new tack toward Eastern Europe | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...must to all men, Death came last week to Hudson Maxim, 74, inventor of deadly explosives. It came slowly, quietly???preceded by 24 hours' coma. It found him at his home at Maxim Park, Lake Hopatcong, N. J. It had tried unsuccessfully, many times before, to find him in his laboratory. Although several of his assistants had been blown to bits, he emerged from all his dangerous experiments with only his left hand missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of Maxim | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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