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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich assortment of fine European pastries and pies" ($1.75)--our night it included strawberry shortcake--just didn't make it either. Due to a combination of freezing and the wind chill factor from the perpetual spinning, most of the desserts arrived at the table ice cold--consider ordering them with your dinner to give them time to thaw...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and Nell Scovell, S | Title: Nice Try | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Army Brig. Gen. Peter Rich said yesterday attacks on polling places began Sunday night, but only one site suffered damage. Rich said two guerillas were killed in the attacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodesian Nationalists Blow Up Oil Tanks | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...Muhammad accepted a marriage proposal from Khadijah, a rich Meccan widow 15 years his senior, for whom he had led a successful caravan. With his financial security assured by Khadijah's wealth and business, he began to venture into the desert, to contemplate and pray, as had other Arab holy men before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Messenger of Allah | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Under the vast idea called Islam, which the faithful look to for spiritual nourishment in their numerous ways, an equally vast, rich life passes, as detailed and as complex as any. For comprehension of that life Westerners need what Orientalist Scholar Louis Massignon called a science of compassion, knowledge without domination, common sense not mythology. In Iran and elsewhere Islam has not simply "returned"; it has always been there, not as an abstraction or a war cry but as part of a way people believe, give thanks, have courage and so on. Will it not ease our fear to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Islam, Orientalism And the West | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

What may influence the voters' judgment is Tory criticism that the Trudeau years failed to resolve the alienation of the newly resource-rich Western Canadian provinces, which feel that their growing economic clout is not matched by commensurate political influence in the central government. The Westerners served for decades as a captive market for high-priced manufactured goods from Eastern Canada. Now that they have come into their own, oil-producing Alberta and Saskatchewan are resentful that the Trudeau government has claimed a slice of their petroleum revenues to subsidize the price of imported oil, on which most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Tight Corner for Trudeau | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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