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Yet in much of the world and in the U.S., the bold venture was greeted with elation; a sense of fresh possibilities stirred dusty chancelleries around the globe. France-Soir observed that Nixon's decision "radically alters the international situation. It opens immense perspectives for the future of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Nixon: Determined to Make a Difference | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

Barrow in winter is mainly a scattered group of frame houses covered by layers of frost. Much of the time "20-20" weather prevails-20°-below-zero temperature and a bone-rattling 20-knot wind-making the chill factor 70° below zero. During winter in Barrow one does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Barrow, Alaska: Cold Frontier | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

In Japan, the storm warnings were up. Jane Fonda-or, as local newspapers described her, "Typhoon Jane" -was blowing into the country to stir up the peace movement, lash the resident U.S. military brass and crack a few thunderbolts at male chauvinism. After whooshing through five Japanese cities, Jane had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Typhoon Jane | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

In the East, Indian troops skirted cities and villages whenever possible in order to avoid civilian casualties, a strategy that also scattered the demoralized Pakistani forces and led to their defeat. After the signing of the surrender, a military spokesman in New Delhi announced triumphantly: "Not a single individual was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: India: Easy Victory, Uneasy Peace | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

Fully 15,000 Zulus slogged through mud and mist for the ceremony on a hillside in one of the 29 scattered patches of land that make up the Zulu Bantustan, a separate homeland set up by the apartheid government in Pretoria. Warriors rattled their assegais (short, stabbing spears) against oxhide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Last Zulu War | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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