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...addition to its coverage of the week's news, TIME in recent years has been giving its readers a bonus: excerpts from major books of international consequences-the memoirs of Anwar Sadat and Theodore H. White, a study of Chiang Ching (Mme. Mao Tse-tung). But never before has TIME offered an excerpt comparable in importance or scope to the one that will run in three parts beginning next week: Henry Kissinger's long awaited memoirs. TIME'S readers will be the first in the U.S. to receive a serialization of the book...
...pressure to grasp for the nomination began to grow in mid-July, he explains, when Senate colleagues, fearful that Carter's political weakness would damage their own campaigns for reelection, began urging him to run. "During the month of August," Kennedy said of the recent recess, "I had a chance to reflect, the time to review my family responsibilities, and to think about the extent to which my candidacy would be a divisive factor." He met with his closest confidants, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith and Washington Lawyer Paul Kirk, and he concluded that damaging divisions already existed. Said...
...occurred to me finally that I was listening to true underground, the voice of all those who have felt themselves not merely shocked but personally betrayed by recent history. It was supposed to have their time...
...Cuba receives nearly two million dollars in aid from the Soviet Union, which supplies the country with oil at half the world market price. Although Cuban society has been transformed internally, Cuba is still dependent on a foreign power. In fact, what has not often been mentioned in the recent furor over the presence of Soviet troops is that Cuba actually has forces of both superpowers on its territory: the U.S. continues to operate a naval base at Guantanamo. The native strength of the Cuban people and their achievements in only two decades seem to offer hope that this small...
...cycle. The economy is entering recession because the previous boom bounced against the supply constraints of industrial capacity and energy. It was not just Iran which created the gas lines but a more permanent use of energy beyond available supplies. Indeed, the double-digit inflation was created before the recent round of oil troubles, originating in a general shortfall of industrial capacity and renewed food troubles...