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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious: "West German-U.S. relations are so deeply entrenched that they cannot be uprooted by occasional differences of opinion." Schmidt then made a significant concession to Carter, who has linked eventual development of the bomb partly to Bonn's willingness to deploy it on West German soil. For the first time, the Chancellor openly backed the new weapon and stated that it could be based in his country if it would "be a decision of the [NATO] alliance as a whole" and if it would "not be stationed in West Germany alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Bombing the Wrong Target | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Doctors and environmental officials plan to test Rutherford's air, water and soil, check out any radiation sources in the area and interview families of cancer victims to identify any factors that might reveal causal links between the various cases. But they candidly warned it was impossible to promise hard results. Studies of similar clusters, as such groupings of cases are called, have turned up no clear clues as to their causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Geography of Cancer | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

There are other attractions. As a legume, the winged bean converts its own nitrogen from the atmosphere, thanks to a happy symbiosis with guest Rhizobium bacteria in the plant's potato-like tubers. Consequently, it needs no fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Plant | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...good with golf clubs, and had this feeling for the lie of the land ... I do believe that I have some of it, in relation to golf ... I certainly have a feeling for the drainage of a golf hole, the sheltering effect of trees, the feel of the surface soil under my spikes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awesome at Augusta | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...will not be the first time that a foreign maker has produced cars on U.S. soil. Britain's Rolls-Royce did it in Springfield, Mass., from 1921 to 1931. But Volkswagen's huge investment-a projected $250 million-makes it unique right now. No other overseas automaker has a U.S. factory operating; Volvo last year indefinitely postponed plans to build cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: U.S. Rabbit All Set to Hop | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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