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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retort some whites: "Save a fish-spear an Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Chippewas Want Their Rights | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...topnotch salesman who bought Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken business for $2 million and in a stock-swap deal sold it for $21 million, Brown did not do as well in selling himself. He ducked the usual political chores like shaking hands at county courthouses and fish fries. "We have a computer that tells me which hands to shake," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's See Some Teeth | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...falls asleep he finds himself in a graveyard, playing with children long dead. In third-person tales, a homosexual's latent yearning for a woman leads to two murders and a suicide. In others, a rabbi contends with imps, demons, dybbuks and harpies; a woman sins with a fish and her child grows scales and fins; a eunuch tells of the daughters of Lilith who "fly around at night like bats and tempt men to commit abominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...years before it was legally mandated may have been the single biggest mistake of his tenure as president. Carter swam into the presidency / spouting populist rhetoric. He's still spouting, but his actions belie his words. On the issue of oil prices, he has flipped and flopped like a fish on the oil industry line...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...largely by private contributions from the U.S., where special church collections, newspaper ads, mail-in campaigns and benefits have reaped millions for Cambodian relief. Says Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee: "This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents and cans of tuna fish. This is a crisis of staggering magnitude." Interagency cooperation is the official policy in the camps. Nonetheless there is competition among agencies to be the first on the scene where refugees cross at a new point along the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Racing to Save the Hungry | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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