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...slaughter goes on. The death toll of 248 so far this year is already greater than during all of 1975. But the women's peace march is so hopeful a movement that a group of Norwegian newspapers has launched a campaign to raise $150,000 to give Williams and Corrigan a "people's peace prize" (the official Nobel committee decided last week not to award the peace prize this year). Said Williams: "The money would make one of my dreams come true. I would like to see a massive recreation center in Belfast. I feel our children have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Cursed Be the Peacemakers | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Spearheaded by a dump truck that smashed through the main gate, Thai paratroops, border guards and marines rushed in. Peppering the buildings with small arms fire, grenades and anti-tank shells, the soldiers swept through the campus. The toll: 41 dead (only two of them police) and 180 injured. "They were out for blood," said one Western newsman who had covered the war in Viet Nam. "It was the worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: A Nightmare of Lynching and Burning | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...tours" are legend. Occasionally the group will give 250 concerts during 300 days on the road. During one 95-day stretch in 1975, they did 88 one-nighters. Last week they traveled through four Western states, giving five concerts in seven days. The ceaseless motion soon takes its psychic toll. "After a while you turn dingy," says Vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, 27. "Your mind and body won't take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rotgut Life | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

After more than 100 days of frustration and stalemate, the strike by nearly 350 Brown University service workers came to an end this week, but not before taking a heavy toll on the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Strike | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

Such juggling will still leave the pound far below its value of $2.58 in the summer of 1973, before the oil crisis and inflation began taking their toll of economies in industrialized nations. During five years of decline, the pound has lost almost half its buying power. The shrunken pound makes needed imports cost more. This drives up domestic prices, undermining the thrust of the government's economic strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Saga of the Plunging Pound | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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