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...would include a ban on all exports to Iran except food and drugs, a request that American allies reduce their trade with Tehran, and the expulsion of all Iranian diplomats in the U.S. Short of military action, these were the strongest weapons that Jimmy Carter could use in the longest and most frustrating crisis of his presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Anger and Frustration | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...total. During the day the Kunar valley echoes with the drone of Mi-8 utility choppers shuttling men and supplies from Chaghasaray up to Asmar or down to Jalalabad. The danger increases as dusk approaches. It is then, when a man's shadow is longest, that the armor-plated Mi-24 helicopter gunships come in low on their final patrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Brave Struggle for Survival | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...final set, the longest and most exciting of the afternoon, was an intense back and forth battle. Meiselman fought back and garnered a well deserved 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 match victory...

Author: By Gregg F. Clifton, | Title: Netwomen Thrash Terriers in Debut | 4/9/1980 | See Source »

...good measure, last year's grueling road trips have disappeared. Cornell and Navy visit Cambridge this season, and the longest bus ride is a mere jaunt to New Haven, where the hapless Elis haven't had a winning season since 1963. Otherwise, Coach Alex Nahigian and his charges will travel to exotic colleges like MIT, Northeastern, Boston College and Tufts, and sit back while Army, Princeton, and Dartmouth charter their way to Soldiers Field...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Should Contend in EIBL Race | 4/1/1980 | See Source »

...arrival times for more than 9,000 rail trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across Siberia to Khabarovsk that officially takes 218 hours and on the Saltzman and Muileman trip was only 2½ hours late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odds & Trends: Odds & Trends | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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