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The crowd isn't as big as some have predicted. By 10 a.m. there are still acres left unoccupied, and television monitors scattered in the far corners of the park look a little out of place. But a chattering stream of newcomers moves constantly across the Common, spilling out of...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

Four hours before the Holy Father descends in his 747 Aer Lingus special--which scattered airline press releases describe down to the breakfast menu and the team of 17 stewardesses--there is a press briefing. Father Lynch, who is coordinating the visit for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, tells...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Chasing After the Shepherd | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

In the two years since, Arledge and Salant have come to exemplify the two poles of what network news programs want to do most: excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Venda is the third member of that "constellation" of black states envisioned by the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd as the keystone to the edifice of apartheid. Enacted into law in 1959, the homelands plan calls for the establishment of ten purportedly independent black states divided along tribal lines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Birth of a New Non-State | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Invisible Refugees | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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