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Takoradi, Ghana--It rained in scattered showers all three days the ship was in Ghana. Everyone took refuge in the Hotel Atlantic, which had a reputation for lively dances every Friday and Saturday nights. Each of the bands that played had four or five drummers and percussionists, along with twenty...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

IF TANNER must insist on formulating such pat sexual roles for his lead characters, it would be, one would hope, for the purpose of making some broader statement about why such behavior is so typical of men and women in society. But his adherence to a visual world where details...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Film Only a Filmmaker Could Like | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

As these rumblings indicate, protectionist sentiment is rising around the world-to no one's surprise. Demands that domestic businesses be shielded against import competition always become more strident during times of spreading unemployment. The real surprise is that despite the severity of the global recession, free traders so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: The New Protectionism | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Though as many as eight provinces in the Mekong Delta (of a total of 44 provinces in South Viet Nam) had still not surrendered and there was scattered resistance in Cholon, the predominantly Chinese quarter of Saigon, the P.R.G. announced that its conquest was now complete.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The End of a Thirty Years' War | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Tens of thousands of evacuees had already reached the three principal U.S. "staging areas" in the Pacific: Guam, Wake Island and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Others were scattered on Saipan, 250 miles from Guam, where 56 refugees landed after commandeering a South Vietnamese C130; at the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indo-china: Now On to Camp Fortuitous' | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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