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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Compassion," (an intellectualized version of the Pistols' "No Feelings") Byrne derides artificial complexities in a chilling statement of apathy. "Compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time," he sings in his hollow tenor; "What are you, in love with your problems?" Not only is Byrne empty, but he despises those who try to fill their emptiness up with phony difficulties...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Punk Without Punks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

After many years of careful study, legislation has been developed in a positive manner which would address just the problems which you referred to in your campaign statement and provide some answers. This legislation is H.R. 7700, which was approved by the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee by an overwhelming vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Chairman, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...could be that in the new budget and the economic and tax messages that came with it. Jimmy Carter has delivered a statement about his leadership that is clearer than anything else he has tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Carter v. Carter on the Budget | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...agencies of the U.S. armed forces, particularly the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI). When the U.S. and India first formally regulated the exports of monkeys back in 1955, their agreement specified that for each shipment, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service must sign a statement declaring: "I hereby certify that the monkeys now being purchased will be used only for medical research or he production of anti-poliomyelitis vaccine ... and that regular inspections shall be made to assure humane treatment of these monkeys." The agreement also declared that rhesus monkeys "will not be used in atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cutting Out Monkey Business | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...well as physical effort in a place like Soweto. These moments of beauty underline the basic structure of life there: the songs predict the day of liberation, and friendships are based on recognition of a common struggle. But they also keep the play from becoming a simple polemical statement. politics and art usually do not mix well: often, the individual stories overwhelm the politics, or the politics overwhelm the subtleties. South Africa is not all that subtle a situation; the problem that artistic efforts to describe it must avoid is that they can become completely flat, presenting the situation without...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: Defiant Survival | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

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