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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal taxes on gifts to his former wife Betty; that he did not report gifts by constituents, as is required by law; that he filed false reports of campaign contributions and expenditures with the Senate; and that he improperly converted campaign contributions to his personal use. The Justice Department is awaiting the outcome of the hearings before deciding whether to take any action against Talmadge, who may also find his tax returns scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trial of a Lion | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet Union. You have to watch them-they work in three ways. First, by trying to get such superior forces they never need use them; a threat would be enough. We must stop them from doing that. Secondly, by trying to outflank and cut us off from our supplies of raw materials. That is the great significance of Rhodesia and South Africa: we get our vital raw materials from there. We're lucky with our oil for the time being. Now there is that colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Interview with Thatcher | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...with is their Danish subsidy, which now totals $250 million annually. This far exceeds the $100 million a year that the Greenlanders earn from fishing and mining (mainly zinc), and from such specialty exports as the ice cubes that are chopped from glaciers and sold in Denmark for status use in mixed drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREENLAND: Here Comes Kal | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...SALT might as well be the music of the spheres, for all the help it gives ordinary folks trying to get a clear picture of the country's real and relative strengths. The nervous strategist is not the only one to covet verification; the common citizen could also use some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A New Distrust of the Experts | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...clean it up right away. She's a nun." Says another source: "I have the feeling that she thinks television is a dirty business, period, and she has to save us from ourselves by cleaning house." Another opinion is that her IBM training will be of limited use at NBC. Says a former executive at a TV production company: "Jane Pfeiffer is a virgin who comes out of the structured school. I'm not sure the structured school works in the entertainment business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC's Mrs. Clean | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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