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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Carter and Congress may see those figures and slap a "windfall profits" tax on anyone who sells a home. Such a levy would be consistent with the windfall profits tax on oil companies. After all, the homeowner has done nothing to reap that gain-it is a true windfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1979 | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

That's fine with Dolan, who tells a group of prospective N.C.P.A.C. contributors: "Steve Symms will never have short-term beneficiary of much of the movement's activities. True, Viguerie is taking on more Democratic House candidates as clients. But most of the New Right hit lists feature only Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The New Right Takes Aim | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...That is true, as far as it goes. But Carter is convinced, as are U.S. allies in Western Europe, that unless the Palestinians can be persuaded to participate in the autonomy plan, the whole fragile goal of a wider Middle East peace is in jeopardy. All the ferment in the Middle East, Israel's uneasiness, Arab efforts to influence events in new forms, are part of that difficult, unsettling, but necessary process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Putting on the Pressure | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...called himself "The One True Miracle of Equatorial Guinea." With the possible exception of Uganda's deposed dictator, Idi Amin Dada, no African despot has been more brutal and erratic than Francisco Macias Nguema, the President-for-Life of his tiny West African nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Despot's Fall | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

Cambridge, a crowded city of 100,000, is more than a bureaucratic support system for the Square. It is a true Eastern city: ethnic, overdeveloped, and, in some places, tired...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pinball, Disco, Food. It's Found in Cambridge | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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