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PALESTINE: There is no more Pales tine. Finished. I should have said I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. There are Palestinians, and there was a country named Palestine. That Palestine was divided between Israel and Jordan, so there are Palestinian people but there is not any Palestinian state. The country called Palestine vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Waiting in the Wings | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...dust and shouted: "Oh boy, it's beautiful out here. It reminds me of Sun Valley." Scott reported the dust was 6 in. deep and "like soft, powdered snow." But it presented no problem to the astronauts. Together, the two men quickly launched into the now familiar unloading rou-tine of moon landings. Then they turned their attention to a machine that all the world was waiting to see: the first man-driven vehicle on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: From the Good Earth to the Sea of Rains | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

Federal law makes non-possession of a draft card punishable by 5 years in prison and/or a $10,000 tine. But recent commonis by government officials suggest that prosecution is unlikely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Draft Rally To Collect Cards | 5/15/1970 | See Source »

...visited Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Bishops Speak Out | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...imposed. Overuse of the device in the early days of trade unionism made "government by injunction" a burning political issue; by 1930, Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene, in a classic book on the subject, were proposing a new law and writing that "injunctions ought never to become rou tine." Two years later, the Norris-La Guardia Act virtually eliminated them in federal courts, and later Supreme Court rulings eventually curbed state courts as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Law: Ineffective Injunctions | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

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