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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> Iran. According to the International Commission of Jurists, human rights violations have taken place on "an unprecedented scale." Estimates of the number of political prisoners range well into the tens of thousands; the Shah himself admitted to TIME last August that the number stood at more than 3,000.
Next is the matter of Mexico's illegal migrant workers. Each year Immigration agents all over the U.S. round up tens of thousands of illegals and send them home again. López Portillo has devised a two-pronged solution to the problem: the U.S. should relax its immigration...
Never before in this century had the nation been so much at the mercy of its weather. Man, animal and machine in many parts of the country were immobilized under a heavy blanket of snow and ice. A dire shortage of natural gas -long predicted and long ignored -forced the...
What they were talking about was ABC's epic dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots. For eight consecutive nights, tens of millions of Americans were riveted by Haley's story of his family's passage from an ancestral home in Africa to slavery in America and, finally, to freedom...
Sociobiology, by encouraging biological and genetic explanations for racism, war and genocide, exonerates and protects the groups and individuals who have carried out and benefited from these monstrous orimes. Proclaiming fascist-like behavior as part of the "human biogram," it can only regard anti-fascist behavior as an "exception" which...