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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gaps in history where things may have occurred differently. Only where there is evidence is there history, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian tells us. Thus it follows that if there is no evidence, there is no history. How many African tribes kept records at City Hall? Or better yet, how many American Indians kept council meeting notes? Does this mean that black and native Americans have no history? Is that why schoolchildren are repeatedly told Columbus discovered America when native Americans were here first...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...resolution constituted a conscious attempt to equate Zionism with obvious examples of racism. Tiamiou Adjibade, the U.N. delegate from Dahomey, admitted that "in essence Zionism was not related to apartheid", yet in the same breath he linked the two. American publications made the same spurious connection. One letter drew an explicit analogy between South Africa and Israel, terming Jewish fear of anti-semitism a 'red herring...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

CARL SAGAN'S MISSION--to popularize contemporary science--is beyond reproach. Yet, like a hard-sell broker, his execution is chronically faulty. In this collection of 25 essays he spreads before the reader a whole gamut of the most tasty scientific ideas, concepts, and predictions, ranging from the prospect of extraterrestial life to the role of gestation in shaping world religion. But he skips frenetically from one to the next, milking only the most sensational aspects and indulging freely in irresponsible speculation. Our aggravation is heightened by his persistent editorial voice in the background, applauding the genius of this...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: Carl's Charisma | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...belong to this nightmares-in-the-nursery trend. But the initial likenesses are misleading; unlike his fellow excavators of the past, Wolff's maturity enables him to emerge--after a respectable period of thrashing--from the muck. He unflinchingly lays out the shoddiest episodes of a shameful upbringing, yet from this scrutiny he extracts a peace with that segment of his life over which he had no control...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Debbie Kalish, another frshman who has yet to lose this fall, stopped former Smith standout Faith Wilcox, 6-1, 6-3, in the fifth singles. Kris Mertz continued to dominate the sixth singles, as she dumped Didi Seeber...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Netwomen Win; Look to New Englands | 10/19/1979 | See Source »

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