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...left-wing faction to gain control in Tehran. The Soviets could offer to guarantee Iran's security. Or they might pose as mediators and win a major role at a peace conference called to end the war Says one well-informed analyst: "If the Soviet Union can worm its way in as guarantor of a steady oil flow, it has taken a gigantic strategic leap forward. It's a worst-case scenario that is by no means inconceivable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Losing, Whoever Wins | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...River blindness, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by infection from a worm carried by flies, and occurs particularly in West Africa, Guatemala and Mexico. The World Bank, in a project to eradicate the disease in seven African nations within 12 years, has pledged $150 mil lion to spray the flies' breeding waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of Vision | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Loses to Penn In Ivy-League Opener On Five-Game Road Tour | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...buses turned balky again that very night, after the first run of the luge, leaving hundreds of people standing on the pavement with cold water seeping into their shoes. The trouble is that Americans would sooner take hook worm medicine than a bus. The fact is that the buses know they are despised, and in their resentment they simply would not stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Bring Your Own Balloon | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Urging caution on "the thin ice of modern life," Waters' lyrical ankles do a lot of wobbling before he is indicted, some 75 minutes into the record, on charges of fecklessness, savagery and numbness. The presiding magistrate, a worm, sentences the singer to "be exposed before/ Your peers/ Tear down the wall." Lysergic Sturm und Drang like this has a direct kind of kindergarten appeal, especially if it is orchestrated like a cross between a Broadway overture and a band concert on the starship Enterprise. It is likely, indeed, that The Wall is succeeding more for the sonic sauna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinkies on the Wing | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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