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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt receives my vote for Person of the Year. He has, with his efficient economic management, kept the rates of West Germany's inflation and unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...never formed a national government. Usually winning between 16 and 22 per cent of the national popular vote, and never having won a single seat in Quebec, the NDP does not have a realistic chance of forming a government in the near future. About the most the NDP can realistically expect in Canada's upcoming election is to repeat its 1972 electoral performance and gain the strategic balance of power position in Parliament...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Canada's Leftists Pick Up Support | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

Last year, after considerable discussion, the ACSR recommended that the corporation vote Harvard's shares in favor of some resolutions favoring modified withdrawal of some companies. The Corporation abstained on them, the reason being that there was no time to meet beforehand. This problem should have been anticipated by Mr. Stevens. In any case, it seems quite suspicious to me that the corporation should negate the ACSR on one of the most important set of decisions it made. I imagine there was some relation to the fact that those decisions were some of the largest steps toward supporting withdrawal that...

Author: By Julie Fouquet, | Title: The Illegitimate ACSR | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

Fortunately, the discrimination faced by American women is not in any way analagous to the campaign of terror conducted by the South African government. Women in this nation are not systematically tortured, beaten, shot, nor deprived of the right to trial, vote, work, hold public office, marry out of their race, or live in the region of their choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women and Oppression | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

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