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...people have the right to know what I stand for," Ike began. His ideas were clear: this business of centralism in government. There was too much of the bureaucracy, too much looking to Washington. He wanted to get the federal government organized so it did not wipe out the states and the municipalities and the communities. He didn't want to have people looking to Washington for everything. The problem was that the federal government was "taking so much money from everyone it left no resources for local government to run its educational apparatus. That was the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Cuba and Angola should not bear any responsibilities for the so-called invasion of Shaba by Katangese rebels. What Jimmy Carter fails to realize is that Africa is determined to wipe out completely Western domination of the continent. Cuba has the blessing of Africans, especially the younger generation, and anyone who opposes Cuba in Africa digs his own grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Needed: an international campaign to wipe out terrorism, as piracy was once obliterated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...customers nonetheless started to complain. Environmentalists were alarmed by violations of federal clean-air standards and a 1975 near disaster at Brown's Ferry nuclear power station in Alabama. Next, environmentalists sued to block the TVA from building the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River, which would wipe out the snail darter, a three-inch perch found only in those waters; that battle goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: A Conservationist Shakes the TVA | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...still a long way from job equality. Black unemployment-11.8% in April-remains more than double the white rate. And at the pace disclosed by the study, it will take 30 to 40 more years to wipe out the differential between the pay of white and black men. Welch grants that there is no reason to be satisfied, but he adds: "A helluva lot has happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Catching Up | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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