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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only reasonable course left open in Cambodia [March 10] is to offer sanctuary in this country to the several thousand Cambodians who have been most clearly identified with the prosecution of the war, and to engage in negotiations for a peace settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...mile plane safari across Kenya and Zambia. After mingling with swarthy dhow captains, veiled ladies and outdoor coffee sellers in Lamu, Kenya, Duke toured the town's museum, then peeled off a $200 contribution. "It's like a tale from The Thousand and One Nights come to life. All I am thinking about as I leave Africa is coming back," she said before boarding a plane to begin a more sybaritic visit to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1975 | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...Pyramids, of course--when were they? A thousand years earlier, I should say...and they were the greatest structure in the world until...in the 1400s, wasn...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Men Behind the Guinness Book | 3/19/1975 | See Source »

Cher also has a way to go before her private life is a model of common sense. She owns over a thousand gowns and 500 pairs of shoes. Over her massive hearth is a big neon CHER. Her social life strikes many as excessive. "Nobody in this town lives like that anymore," sniffs an anonymous critic who was not too proud to accept the invitation. "Four hundred guests assembled, and Cher making a sweeping entrance down a spiral staircase-it's out of the great glamorous '20s." New Friend Allman, a down-home type with fairly primitive views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cher | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...four individuals, not any suite, which runsout two model U.N.s each year. To imply that new students run these conferences, naming four, and, then say it is a big job for them" is an incredibly patronizing understatement. Putting on our high school conference alone took an estimated six thousand man-hours of work by our eighty-odd member volunteer staff. Both conferences are tremendous undertakings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL UNITED NATIONS | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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