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The British have long since learned that they cannot do anything about Amin. At the moment, they are concerned about a related problem: how to keep him from paying them an unwanted visit. Like other Commonwealth leaders, Amin plans to attend a meeting of Commonwealth nations in London next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

"The case for charm--or the fourth quark--became much firmer when it was realized that there was a serious flaw in the familiar three-quark [flavor] theory, which predicted that "strange" particles would sometimes decay in ways that they did not. In an almost magical way, the existence of...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Would You Believe Lemon Leptons And Magic Muons? | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Gardner, as he showed in A Thousand Clowns, is a writer who comes armed with a little atomizer. It is filled with a blend of heartwarming innocence and sweet-spirited childishness, with which he tries to freshen the air when all this plotting gets too thick. But since his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Petty Larceny | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Dry Life. Marin has plenty of water -all the wrong kind. Its peninsula affords magnificent views of the Pacific, San Pablo Bay and Drakes Bay. But the county's fresh-water reservoirs are inadequate. For years the residents have been voting down bond issues that would have supplemented the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Marin County: The Bucket Brigade | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

The President-elect has said nothing at all about all those servicemen who received less than honorable discharges for acts of protest short of desertion, but related to their reluctance to wage the war. Some, for example, failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ARMED FORCES: Pardon: How Broad A Blanket? | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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