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...teenagers. Then he outraged the large Muslim population by ordering women to stop wearing veils and by banning traditional wedding feasts. Last January he directed his loyal youth brigade to kill every dog in the islands. They scoured villages, tied the captive canines to the back of a Land-Rover and dragged them to death through the streets. Many Comorans speculated that Soilih had flipped out and gone psychodogmatic after a fortuneteller warned that he would be overthrown by a man with a mutt. On the other hand, the stocky dictator may have dreamed up the idea while smoking hashish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMORO ISLANDS: A Man and His Dog | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime Minister and, sensing opposition to his posh lifestyle, decelerated to khakis and a Land Rover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...chained in his cell for most of the 26 days he spent in detention-as well as during two full nights of interrogation. During the last 24 hours of his life, he had been driven, still unclothed but covered by a blanket, in the back of a police Land-Rover all the way to Pretoria, where he died of the head injuries 14 hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Inquest into a Curious Death | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...trouble, but a new boss and a turn toward moderation by its fractious workers are strengthening its chances to stay in business. When the Labor government reluctantly agreed to take over nearly bankrupt British Leyland Motor Corp. in 1975, it publicly warned the maker of Jaguar, Morris, Triumph and Rover cars that it would not throw good money after bad. The price of government cash for new-car development and badly overdue plant modernization was to be an end to the constant bickering that has pitted unions against management and against each other. For two years, the warning was mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Chance for Leyland | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

There were no casual "walkabouts," as she calls them, and no rides in horse-drawn open coaches past cheering crowds. Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Royal Blitz in a Troubled Realm | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

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