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"It is unfortunate that the focus (of the tax revolt) was on the property tax. Bureaucrats will do their best to make it as unpleasant as possible for people," he said.

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Feldstein Expresses Pessimism About Future of Proposition 13 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

On the Front-Line States. [Samora] Machel [of Mozambique] and [Kenneth] Kaunda [of Zambia] want to end the Rhodesian problem even more than I do. U.S. and British recognition of the internal settlement would give them the out they are looking for. Kaunda said to me once, "If only the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: We Gave Them What They Wanted | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Once again opportunity has passed us by. Until America faces up to the unpleasant reality that the land in question is rightfully Palestinian, no number of treaties or summits will achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. The only positive results of the recent summit will be new drains on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States may be resolved in "an unpeaceful or unpleasant major confrontation sometime in the 1980s," Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government and director of the Center for International Affairs, said yesterday.

Author: By Raymond Bertolino, | Title: Huntington Foresees U.S.-Soviet Conflict Within Next Decade | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Nor is coal the answer. Although the U.S. has an abundant supply, coal, like oil, is an exhaustible resource that would be better used in the chemical industry than for power. Deep mining is expensive, and some 100 miners are killed in accidents each year. Strip mining requires expensive reclamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Irrational Fight Against Nuclear Power | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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