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...when Tania awakes from her nightmare, she is her own self again, or rather non-self. "Dreams...." she scoffs, "what can I do about my dreams? I'll get rid of my fears in them." She has rejoined--at least psychologically--the other characters in the play, all to a certain extent interchangeable, all serving as illustrations of a quotation from Che that is printed in the program: "For the authentic revolutionaries there is no life outside the revolution...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Another Tania | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

...that the domestic peace will be fragile and temporary at best. To many in Angola, it smacks of the same slapdash arrangements the Belgians made before handing the Congo over to bloody civil war in 1960. The majority think it is little more than an improvised device to get rid of Angola with meaningless lip service to safeguards for whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Fragile Independence | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...Francis W. Sargent, 59, moderate Republican Governor of Massachusetts for six years: "The Federal Government, in its incredible anxiety to computerize the lives of everyone, has made some very serious invasions into people's privacy. There has been all too much snooping. We should not get rid of computers, but we should give more thought to what goes into them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Parting Words | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...result will be the same: a heart attack that can cripple or kill its victim. In a chicken-and-egg situation, high blood pressure can also trigger complex mechanisms that will reduce blood flow to the kidneys. That, in turn, reduces the capacity of the kidneys to help rid the body of its waste material, and the kidneys themselves may eventually fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

Nonetheless, other nations stand to benefit from Norway's oil-related problems. For example, the Norwegians, like the Arabs, may be forced to get rid of excess oil profits through heavy investment in foreign banks and industries. Such investments could well create a valuable Eurokrone market. Even more important, oil-hungry nations may now look toward a new, possibly more cooperative supplier than the Persian Gulf nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unhappy Nordic Boom | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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