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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home consumption." Indeed, LÓpez Portillo's outspokenness won wide praise in Mexico City. Declared the morning newspaper Novedades: "The President expressed the feelings of all Mexicans in a very accurate way." Out in the streets, several thousand leftist demonstrators shouted anti-Carter slogans and burned Uncle Sam in effigy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Battle of Toasts | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Nitze's hope is that after long years of relative indifference, the U.S. people are now beginning to listen to what he says. This week he is back testifying on the Hill. Fragments from his arguments echo in the questions of key Senators like Georgia's Sam Nunn and Tennessee's Howard Baker. And suddenly Nitze finds he is marching at times with old adversaries like former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Says Nitze: ''I think it is running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The White-Haired Hawk | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...more boisterous. Some 2,000 chanting, hymn-singing demonstrators, many of them bused into Raleigh by a group of fundamentalist churches, besieged wavering legislators. The anti-ERA crowd filled the air with choruses of Amazing Grace! and waved placards declaring ERA the PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE. Former U.S. Senator Sam Ervin Jr. added his country-lawyer counsel against the amendment. Said Ervin: "ERA would nullify any laws that make any distinction between men and women. When the good Lord created the earth, he didn't have the advice of Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem. If any woman is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ERA Runs into a Roadblock | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...delegates met yesterday in the Yard in committees patterned after actual U.N. committees and in sessions of the General Assembly and Security Council, Sam N. Levin '80, Secretary-General, said yesterday...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Model U.N. | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...Georgia's own Democratic Senator Sam Nunn echoes the message. The world has moved, and Nunn believes the U.S. lacks "a SALT philosophy" in a tune when events seem to be slipping out of our grasp. Republican Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. sat on one of his Maryland hillsides as long ago as April and heard Pakistan's brilliant ambassador, Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, prophesy chaos in Iran. The ambassador has gone to Moscow, after telling his friends that his government believes the Soviets to be the dominant world force now because the U.S. cannot be counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Flood Tides of History | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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