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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One reason is that the annual growth of demand for electricity has fallen to around 3%, from the steady 7% through the 1950s and '60s. Meanwhile, the time required to bring a reactor ''on line'' has stretched out to a dozen years after the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Outrage at Kim's expulsion quickly spread to the volatile university campuses. Following a series of antigovernment rallies, major riots erupted in the southern port city of Pusan. More than 3,000 students, joined by older demonstrators, charged through the streets, attacking government buildings. A total of 73 policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Assassination in Seoul | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Park's main goal in office was to turn South Korea into a dynamic capitalist society on the Asian mainland, using Japan as a model. In this he succeeded. Since 1961, South Korea's per capita income has risen from $85 a year to around $1,500. South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Very Tough Peasant | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

What even the most militant of the Palestinians want is to have open borders, to go freely to and from Israel. We would never support the idea of a corridor between the West Bank and Gaza. Why should there be one, when the people of Gaza and the West Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Dayan's Vision of Coexistence | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

By Western standards, the crimes were relatively minor ones: pimping, consorting with prostitutes, violating customs laws. But the sentences meted out to the 27 prisoners ranged from five to 15 lashes, plus prison terms at hard labor. In preparation for the whippings, an 18-ft. raised platform had been erected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Whips of God | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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