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...prisoners now agree that Viet Nam had been the "aggressor" in the war, while a further 60% were inclined toward this view. Only 10%, he claimed, were still "stubborn" in their insistence that China was at fault. Some visiting journalists were annoyed at being used to transmit Chinese statements about the prisoners' attitude toward their own country. Wade protested that the Vietnamese would "almost certainly execute or severely punish these prisoners" after they were repatriated. Replied Wang: "I am just telling you the facts. It's up to you what you do with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: The Battle of Words Continues | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...what was to become Hanta Yo. According to her collaborator Chunksa Yuha, a full-blooded Sioux, she read over 1200 ethnographies and wrote over 2000 pages. Beginning in 1967 the two translated all 2000 pages into pre-reservation Mahto only to retranslate back into English. They wanted to transmit the style and flavor of the ancient language as much as they wanted to depict the Mahto culture. They succeeded. Not only is Hanta Yo the best researched noyel yet written about an American Indian tribe, but it is also written in a unique style...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

Economies like these easily outweigh temporary technical glitches. Wall Street communications analysts, like Winston Himsworth of Salomon Brothers, see a huge market for the new phones. Himsworth envisions the day when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Other fellows, enthusiastic about their own work in politics, said they are very anxious to transmit their excitement to students. "I want to convey the opportunities in state government, and how exciting it can be," Evelyn F. Murphy, former secretary of Environmental Affairs for the state of Massachusetts, said yesterday...

Author: By Jill Friedlander, | Title: Former Congressman Among Institute of Politics Fellows | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...orbit. It was the first of twin Viking spacecraft, each with an orbiter and a lander, launched by NASA to help satisfy man's curiosity about the possibilities of life on the planet. The Viking I orbiter's immediate chore was to survey the Martian surface and transmit pictures of potential landing sites. Once the lander was safely down (on July 20, 1976), the orbiter began snapping away at its aerial photographic study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Postcards from Another World | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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