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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The crunch will come in January with the announcement of the 1980 budget, which will almost certainly contain some subsidy cuts. On that potentially explosive occasion, Sadat may need all of his considerable powers of persuasion to convince his people that the "better life" he has promised is still imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Egypt's Promise of Peace | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Last week the space agency announced the award of $1.15 million contracts to Boeing and Lockheed for preliminary studies of a new rocket. Its purpose: to power an unmanned spacecraft that will intercept Halley's Comet as it sweeps around the sun. Known as the solar electric propulsion system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

If Congress provides the needed funding, the probe will be carried into earth orbit by the space shuttle in the summer of 1985. Boosted by a conventional rocket, it will fly off toward the comet, gradually accelerated by its cluster of six or eight small ion engines, during the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 73, the lanky pitcher who over four decades terrified opponents and electrified fans with his artistry on the mound, is about to get the TV-movie treatment. In Don't Look Back, an ABC film to be aired next year, Lou Gossett Jr., will portray Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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