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Human institutions were poorly equipped to cope with the plague, or with man-made anguish like the Hundred Years' War. It lasted from 1337 well into the 15th century, mainly because knights in armor could lay waste to a countryside, but, lacking siege cannon, could not usually capture a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Hard Times | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

The tax-cut vote was also a setback for New York Republican Representative Jack Kemp, 43, who has staked his promising career on the issue of a sweeping 33% reduction in federal personal income taxes over a three-year period. Kemp argues that the cut would be such a spur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Money for the Middle Class | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Seizing on a story with, so to speak, grass-roots appeal, some metropolitan newspapers and broadcasters devoted more space and time to the cleanup issue last week, than they did to the terrorist attack at the Iraqi embassy in Paris or anything going on in Congress. The New York Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Keeping New York Tidy | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

In traditionally turbulent Bolivia, where there has never been an untainted election, the results of yet another crooked one led last week to a sudden coup. Juan Pereda Asbún, 47, an air force general, led his right-wing military followers in seizing key buildings in the city of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Politics in the Khaki Embrace | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Within the Administration, there is general agreement on what the Cubans are up to: Castro, always the ideologue, is exporting revolution to win friends and thumb his nose at the U.S. But there are two importantly different schools of thought as to what the Russians are up to. One view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Countering the Communists | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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