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Scattered throughout the agreed-upon text are pairs of alternately worded passages in brackets. These are the provisions and definitions still in dispute. In the English version, the U.S.-proposed wording comes first and is numbered 1, followed by the Soviet proposal, numbered 2; the Russian version has it the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Facing the Russians | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

A recently laid-off teacher of English composition from Brockton, N.Y., Kim is also a member of an outfit called the Society for Creative Anachronism, with a "couple of hundred" confreres scattered across the Northeast. Medieval buffs, they engage in "wars, feasts and revels" at appropriate times of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ann Arbor: The Guns of July | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

They are like a scattered army-you can't shoot them all." So said Farmer Ivan Josserand of Stanton County in western Kansas last week, as he fought a losing battle against swarms of grasshoppers chewing up his alfalfa and corn fields. In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grasshopper Invasion | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

The agreement was a diplomatic victory for the West. U.S. Ambassador Donald F. McHenry, who is assigned to the U.N. and is chairman of the Western group,* gave full credit for the success of the Western approach to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who conceived the Namibian strategy early last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Diplomacy Wins | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Similar camps are scattered throughout the U.S.S.R. Although the number of prisoners in the gulag has been radically reduced since Stalin's death, Russia's leading dissident, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, estimates that there are still 1.7 million. At least 10,000 have been imprisoned for their political or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Island in the Gulag | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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