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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from opinion leaders, corporate heads and others ... We need a revival of will." A President should be a man viewed as capable of acting "rashly," Nixon contends. He should be a man who is feared. "The next President's qualifications should be tested against foreign policy. If he fails there, we all fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Drum Rolls and Lightning | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...ghetto blacks meet face to face are Jews (one reason: some black ghettos were once predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, and often Jewish businesses have stayed in place even though their owners now live elsewhere). Blacks often see them as exploiting landlords, store owners and credit managers or as teachers who fail to educate black pupils. Jews working in or living near the black ghetto, in turn, fear the violence they see around them (as, of course, do blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: With Sorrow and Anger | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...scaffolds in public squares and strung up these devils at the beginning of the revolution, we would have had none of these troubles." In ordering the army and his own Islamic guards to march to Kurdistan, he warned his military commanders: " You will meet revolutionary action yourselves if you fail to move into Kurdistan within 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: No More Mr. Nice Guy | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...courts rests with the people who run them: the 28,000 state and local judges, 1,083 federal administrative law judges who hear disputed claims brought to the regulatory agencies, and nearly 700 federal judges charged with upholding the law. Too often it is a responsibility that judges fail to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...district court session, you can find 300 lawyers waiting around to get their cases scheduled, with their meters running." The trial date the judge wants often will not suit one or the other lawyer; when they finally agree, a witness will go out of town or fail to show up and trial will be further delayed. It is a costly cycle of inconvenience, frustration and ineptitude repeated in courts the country round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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