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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When is President Carter going to recall our irresponsible U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young [July 24]? If Young is so interested in political prisoners, I propose that he make a list of those he considers American political prisoners and arrange a swap with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1978 | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Sometimes the idea is just to salvage a going concern. Notes Bill Buchholz, who runs flea markets billed as "swap meets" at his Miami drive-in theater: "The quality of the movies is so poor and the cost of getting them so high, I'd go right out of business without the swap meets." Quite a few flea markets are still fleabags, but the institution has taken on enough respectability that the U.S. Economic Development Administration has funded Washington, D.C.'s first permanent flea market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Soft words and a smooth swap: then a chilling summons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.: Two on a Seesaw | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...Council. Sithole loyalists, once known to be virtually penniless, have bought expensive houses and farms, and ride around in Land Rovers and Mercedes automobiles that younger Africans describe sardonically as "Lonrhomobiles." Asked one black student leader at the University of Rhodesia: "What the hell is Rowland trying to do, swap Ian Smith for this crowd of bought blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bye-Bye for Tiny Rowland | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...central figure in the swap was the prisoner from Lewisburg: Robert Thompson, 43, a onetime U.S. Air Force clerk who had served 13 years of a 30-year sentence after confessing, in 1965, that he had passed hundreds of photos of secret documents to the Soviets while he was based in West Berlin. After the exchange, Thompson hurried off into East Berlin, leaving behind several lingering puzzles about his true identity. Although U.S. investigators remained persuaded that he was a Detroit-born American, Thompson maintained that he was actually born in Leipzig (now in East Germany) of a Russian father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: A Prisoner-Swapping Triple Play | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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