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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined dictator, 52, has vowed time and again to stay on until his current six-year term expires in 1981. At a press conference following the Sandinista assault, Somoza, under obvious strain, insisted that he did not intend to change his mind. He said he had capitulated "to save human lives," and warned that "ideologies other than traditional ones" threatened to divide his country "into democratic and Communist peoples." But concern is growing that his failure to step down will provoke more strife. At week's end his political opponents launched a nationwide general strike that they hoped would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Triumph of the Sandinistas | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Whenever Meany steps down?his current term runs until 1979, when he will be 85?his successor is just about certain to be AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland, 56. Kirkland has a reputation as both an intellectual and a pragmatist. He vows that labor's political support in this fall's mid-term elections will be determined by how legislators voted on the labor-reform bill, rather than going blindly to Democrats. For example, in Illinois the AFL-CIO for the first time will aid the re-election campaign of Republican Senator Charles Percy, who voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Labor Comes to a Crossroads | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...free copy of The Crimson. It'll make good reading, and it'll make us fell better. You can to the whole thing in about 45 minutes, unless you get the infamous red dot on your registration packet, which means that something it amiss between you and the term bills office (the girm reapers who will clean you or your family out of $30,000 in the next four years). Then you've got to get that straightened out. Good luck...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Welcome to Freshman Week--How About a Game of Catch? | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., (S.), at 11. 0105 (XIII...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Could Choose Your Courses Blind... Or You Could Read The Confi-Guide | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., (S.), at 11. 6532 (XIII...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Could Choose Your Courses Blind... Or You Could Read The Confi-Guide | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

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