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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a heavy sea fog rests on its frightful desolation, a place better fitted to represent the infernal regions could scarcely be found ... Death would be preferable to banishment to such a country.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Struggle for Namibia | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

IN VIEW OF the entrenched student apathy and the increasingly conservative attitudes of Harvard students, we think the convention members have chosen a delicate and appropriate path between what is desirable and what is pragmatic. It is a fallacy to believe student assembles are inherently conservative, for they must--to...

Author: By Peter Tufano, | Title: Ratify the Constitution | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

While I admire Senator Zorinsky's zest for independent decision making, I feel the story illuminates a faulty, if common, misconception of senatorial responsibility. With respect to matters of broad national concern, a legislator should represent his constituency by making the decision he feels will best serve the overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

"There's a tragic choice here," says Richard Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. "I can understand those people who look at this situation and say, 'Here is Smith (whose history and track record perhaps they don't understand) offering genuine majority rule. Here are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: U.S. Policy Under Attack | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

His father Moritz was a printer, bookbinder and boxmaker. The infant Saul had the run of his workshop, which was filled with embossed paper, stamps, colored cardboard, reproductions of "museum" madonnas (literally, chocolate-box art) and type blocks. These were his toys. "I had from the beginning the large wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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