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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The National Council meeting reached agreement on the most important issues on its agenda early on. The relatively moderate Yasser Arafat remains the dominant figure within the P.L.O., although the role of George Habash and his radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will be somewhat expanded. Delegates took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Convention In Damascus | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

The incident would cause only low-level comment if Billy Carter were seldom seen, like Sam Houston Johnson, ne'er-do-well brother of Lyndon, or Donald Nixon, fumbling recipient of the Hughes loan back in 1956. But Billy has been elevated to special status by none other than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Brother Billy Caper | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Just what would convince you, Mr. Calkins? Nothing, I suspect. I've been writing a paper on authoritarianism and I've run across something called the "leadership principle," whereby even if the voting public turns against him, the Leader continues to represent the "objective will of the people." If this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Majority | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

To check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening the essay with: "David...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beating the System | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

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