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Ciskei is an even less likely candidate for self-reliance. Its barren, eroded soil supports few crops or even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Voting for Puppethood | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

The medical examination began before immigrants were even aware of it. Doctors stationed in the hall simply observed the newcomers as they walked by. In six seconds, physicians checked off 15 diseases. They placed chalk marks on the lapels of those who needed closer scrutiny: H for heart, L for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Ellis Island Revisited | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Confused with alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, junk food, marijuana, overweight, generation-gap, aging, public opinion, mastery-enslavement, sadism-masochism ecclesiasticism, unwanted children, abortion, venereal disease, bitterness, fear, doubt, envy, rivalry, suspicion, humorlessness, legal marriage, desertion, divorce, infidelity, paternity actions, court suits, money scramble and a multitude of other demands it is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ratliff File | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

Capital punishment is "life for life." He opposes prayer in public schools, violates his "pray to your father in secret," evolution is growth--Jesus is growth, he associates with lesbian and homosexual--always is friend to the outcast and rejected, is for ERA--elevates even the woman taken in adultery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

Having grown up with the idealistic teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, I found myself ill-prepared for the harsh, realistic world that exists beyond it. In a world where overpopulation breeds starvation and unwanted children are subject to abuse and neglect, I'd say it's about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1980 | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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