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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's not much we can do for imprisoned dissidents," a member of the Ukrainian Research Institute said, "but this is worth...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Dissident in Limbo | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...students' rationale for disregarding the law was simply that serving alcohol at parties without a license was illegal already, so serving it to underage students made it just a little more illegal. Hard-core partiers insisted it would be worth a day or two in jail just to be able to throw a tremendous bash...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...government has demonstrated unconscionable neglect toward Cambodia," co-founder Llewellyn C. Werner said yesterday. This summer Werner directed Operation California, which has airlifted more than $3 million worth of food and medicine to Southeast Aisan refugees...

Author: By Robert J. Campbell, | Title: Students Form Group to Aid Cambodia | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...queuing up to buy Aston Martin's wedge-shaped, futuristic, four-door Lagonda, currently $87,000 and sold out until 1982. After the legendary James Bond, the British company's most famous customer is probably Prince Charles, who tools around London in a 1970 Volante convertible, now worth $78,000. Like all Aston Martins, the car is upholstered with the hides of eight Scottish cattle. West Germany's sleek Porsche 928, priced at $33,220 and voted 1978 Car of the Year by European auto writers, is bought mainly by dentists (the country's highest income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exotic Steals at $40,000 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...certain that any of the mysteries Mailer touches upon are worth this huge effort. Still, his mastery of detail is superb. The story has its startling, bizarre touches: Gilmore's father, it seems, was the illegitimate son of Houdini. Gilmore himself remains a punk, though a moderately interesting one. He spent more than half of his life in jail, and, like other intelligent prisoners, had a routine. He could con intellectuals and other innocents on the outside who tend to be fascinated by violent criminals-literate ones-in the same way that Gladstone was fascinated by prostitutes. Gilmore used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doom as Theater | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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