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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It is not surprising that 97% of those killed in the Zimbabwe-Rhodesia struggle have been black, since less than 4% of the total population are white.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

One of the most difficult problems facing both the Carter Administration and the new British government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is what to do about Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the breakaway British colony will be known after the June 1 installation of a black-led government headed by Methodist Bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Zimbabwe Dilemma | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Le Chambon is a Protestant village in the Cévennes mountains. Even in France, few have heard of it. The ignorance is not surprising; goodness is not the sort of thing that arouses historians.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Neighbors | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

I suppose that adulatory sports profiles do serve some function in cultivating through hero worship our loyalties to our school and social class. This particular one, however, was ridiculousness and offensive in its sycophancy to social values and elites that you in your editorials have so oftencondemned. I suppose I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virtuous Example? | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

Did Jesus arise bodily from the grave on the first Easter? "I would not exclude such a resurrection as within the range of possibility," says a visiting professor of New Testament studies at West Germany's Gottingen University. Nothing surprising in that, except for the fact that the scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Resurrection? | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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