Labels:text | newspaper | human face | man | person | screenshot OCR: TIME The 1970s ALMANAC OF THE 20TH CENTURY January 1970-December 1979 ELECTIONS the revival of a 1970s were PORTRAITS pragmatic, out- decade of dimin- ward-looking ished prestige China; the return of abroad and self- several Western doubt at home, European countries Gulf caused by the 1972 to democracy v. Vietnam debacle, bloody tyranny and the Watergate scan- widespread torture MAN OF dal and deepening Women's Movement and human rights ENERGY THE YEAR CRISIS economic crisis. abuses in much of Yet by 1976, the world; peace at bor, Egypt, against dozens of lives and Americans could 1976 last between Israel a background of disrupted millions. celebrate not only and its most pow- Palestinian terror- the nation's Bicen- The 1970s seems erful Arab neigh- ism that cost For the U.S. the tennial but the vin- a period of mixed dication of gains and losses: a political detente between system Richard Nixon U.S. and the Soviet that had jected it. The Union set against survived decade also saw the broad Soviet gains the strains rise of the women's in the Third World; and cor- movement, the first the fall of the ruption to sustained efforts to Indochinese states which clean up the envi- to ruthless Com- TOP STORIES VIETNAM Watergate ronment and munist regimes v. OF THE 1970s AFTERMATH WATERGATE had sub- humankind's fur-
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