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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Hurricane David made its deadly passage through the Caribbean two weeks ago, a successor storm named Frederic dawdled not far behind. Last week, Fred suddenly turned ugly and churned northward, forcing half a million people to flee a 100-mile stretch of the coast, from Gulfport, Miss., to Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Frederic the Fearsome | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

In Negros Occidental province of the southern Philippines, children with flowers carried a small white coffin along a country road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Meanwhile, there were tantalizing hints that the Saudis were still very much involved behind the scenes in trying to influence the outcome of a Middle East settlement. TIME'S Cairo bureau chief Dean Brelis learned last week that Saudi Arabia, through a third party, recently deposited $500 million in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Good Chemistry All Around | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

A squadron of South African Impala jets thundered through the skies over the new Independence Stadium in Thohoyandou, as tribal dancers raised clouds of red dust with their rhythmic exhortations to ancestral spirits. At the stroke of midnight, South Africa's top-hatted President Marais Viljoen strode down a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Birth of a New Non-State | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Henry Kissinger feels that the Administration's campaign of proselytizing for democracy in Iran and Nicaragua aggravated, even if it did not cause, the crises in those countries. Viewing what he regards as a dual debacle from the perspective of a once and possibly future Secretary of State, Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Dilemma of with Dictators | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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