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On the state of the country. Since the elections [in February], the progress has been tremendous. We have moved quite a long way in consolidating the peace. Our armed forces are integrating, and a single army is being formed. The dissident elements scattered throughout the country are being rounded up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mugabe: A Practical Marxist | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

Others, though, can seek out the land, the profusion of growth and beauty that is never farther away than the dirt road over yonder. If a boy wants to get away and think, he can do so royally: "He stood in the light of birdleg-pink leaves, yellow flower vines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life, with a Touch of the Comic | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, a strict Muslim fundamentalist, flew to New York City to present to the United Nations Security Council Iran's complaint that Iraq had started the war by attacking Iranian territory. Shortly before Raja'i's arrival, President Carter for the first time referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Gulf Explode? | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

"I must go to London immediately." Thus speaks Charles Dickens, 58, on the evening of June 8, 1870. They are his last words. He collapses on a sofa in his dining room and dies the following night. Upon hearing the news, a melancholy world grieves for itself: there will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 110-Year-Old Murder | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

"Any of you out there Italian?" Scattered voices in the crowd yelled in the affirmative. "Okay then--I'll talk slower."

Author: By Dale White, | Title: Take Henny Youngman...Please | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

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