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5) Defense increases and getting in bed with military juntas will not increase U.S. security, let alone improve the international situation. They make right-wing critics happy, but they do not help. The Soviets are threatening the Persian Gulf, we are told, and since the Western oil junkies are dependent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deja Vu? Deja Vu? Deja Vu? Deja Vu? | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Members of the American Agriculture Movement, which sponsored a tractor drive-in to Washington last year to protest low farm prices, demonstrated in front of Government agriculture offices in more than half of Oklahoma's 77 counties. In Sharon Springs, Kans., angry AAM members mounted their tractors and surrounded the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grain Becomes a Weapon | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Modern farm-belt agriculture, however, has brought with it a new manifestation of an age-old problem -soil erosion. Inadequate conservation measures combined with very heavy planting have led to excessive runoffs of soil into rivers and streams. In such Plains states as Nebraska and Kansas, where often only scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Plains of Plenty | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Some of us mossbacks are bored with the burbling about our solar future. We aren't going to get there without electricity for mining, processing and manufacturing the material for solar equipment. And we aren't going to have enough electricity without nuclear power. And we aren'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1980 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Elsa and the three cubs she mothered were only the Adamsons' first experiments in returning animals to the wild. George continued to work mostly with lions, including some who had performed in Born Free. But Joy turned in the 1960s to cheetahs, successfully de-taming an engaging creature named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Woman Who Loved Lions | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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