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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerusalem. Israelis have vivid memories of the 1948-67 Jordanian rule, when the city was divided. Jews were illegally denied access to the ancient Temple's Western Wall and the Jewish quarter of the Old City was looted and damaged. Muslims answer that the Old City is, and traditionally has been, mainly Arab in population and that they should have it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Toward a Just Peace | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...Maritime Council, is livid. "In effect, the Soviets are dumping by their price cutting, while there is no serious coordinated policy in Washington," he charges. Managing Director Carl-Thomas Hubrich of the Deutsche Afrika-Linien in Hamburg laments: "We're still there, but our backs are to the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piracy or Profit on the High Seas? | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Between Time and Timbuktu. At Off the Wall, nightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...extremely large, about 35 feet long, and painted a strange shade of pinkish orange. There are two enormous desk-size color TV sets as well as a couple of legitimate desks, a spherical environmental chair with an unexploded artillery shell inside, a long couch covered with flower prints and wall shelves filled with gun manuals and almanacs. However, there is no bed. There is a set of double doors at the far end, though, and behind this I finally find the bedroom and my brother. The dogs are still carrying on in the distance. I collapse on the unoccupied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...could write like Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark or Graham Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have won at a coconut shy at one of the regattas. 'Be a wheel-greaser if you can't drive a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grande Dame | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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