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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just can't make the progress you want. You have to be able to sit down and talk very directly, essentially with nobody else around. That way the other side will open up and tell you, "Well now, this is what our problem is." It allows you to understand their problems and to see if there might be ways to take account of those considerations and still achieve your own objective. That's why it's of critical importance that you have this kind of channel. We found we just couldn't be as open with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Reducing the Horror | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...point, Diebold withdrew as a witness rather than disclose reports to clients "on things genuinely unconnected with the case for the sake of a fishing expedition on the part of the Justice Department." As he told the TIME conference:"Gradually, I realized that the Government lawyers don't understand what they're doing." For example, according to the Government's definition of the "general purpose" computer market, there were only eight competitors in 1969, said Diebold. "Since that date, we have clocked something on the order of 300 new players in thegame- Japanese, French, American. During that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Case of the Century | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Still, one can appreciate the offhand confusion of Randy Newman, no small influence on Jones, and no master of elocution either. Specially imported to play synthesizer on one album cut, Newman was asked what he thought of the song. "Can't tell," he replied. "Couldn't understand a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duchess of Coolsville | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...situation is difficult for Western Christians to understand," he says. Since the days of John Bunyan and Roger Williams, Baptists have traditionally believed in total separation of church and state. But attempts to practice that belief have had hard treatment in the Soviet Union. Baptists who follow Soviet rules can hold worship services, but the government forbids them to preach the word of God in public or to bring up their children with religious instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Submission to God Alone | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...what to whom in exchange for what in the course of the negotiations? Attention has already begun to focus on the confused but climactic phase of SALT II, from the beginning of the Carter presidency until last week's announcement. Believing that one way to grasp SALT is to understand its evolution, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott has spent much of the past year reconstructing the Administration's conduct of SALT, based on exclusive interviews with key officials. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Who Conceded What to Whom | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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