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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Businessmen, intellectuals and churchmen are now united in their conviction that the longer the present situation continues, the greater the danger of a coup from either the left or the extreme right. Says Adolfo Calero, a prominent conservative politician: "The conservatives want it known that in Nicaragua there are democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: A Battle Ends, a War Begins | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Postal Strike? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Man), the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s, once regarded by the outside world as a reversion to the terror and bestiality of the African past, came to be viewed as a war of independence. Kenyatta himself, who had been denounced by a British colonial governor as "a leader to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Old Man Dies at Last | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Last fall, a group of undergraduates got together to discuss the possibility of starting an assembly to represent the student body better. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention differed as to the degree of real statutory authority students might successfully acquire from the faculty and administration. Most delegates soon realized they...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: As Long As You Asked... | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

To many Lambeth conferees, the question was less whether women ought to be made priests than how to preserve unity within the church and ecumenism without. Some diehards held that female Apostles were absent from Scripture and that since priests who administer the Sacrament represent Christ, they should be, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unity at Canterbury | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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