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ALMOST unnoticed-except perhaps by the attending delegates-the 27th session of the U.N. General Assembly adjourned last week. After more than 500 meetings and 1,500 hours of debate, the delegates succeeded in passing 153 resolutions. Nine dealt with disarmament, seven with Palestinian refugees, four with decolonization and South African apartheid, and three with bans on nuclear testing-all issues on which the U.N. has made little progress in the past...
Harvard's top seven finishers besides Rojas Quirk and Jones included Fred Linsk, 22nd with a time of 26.12: Jim Keith, 27th at 26:19: Andy Campbell 28th at 26:21; and Jim Hughes, who came in 39th with a time...
...Machine and Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys backed Jimi Hendrix in '69. The Orchestra plays swirling, spiritual jazz-rock, from John McLaughlin's mystical base. Loggins-Messina are Buffalo Springfield drawn through Poco. This lot played at the Common this summer. And cut everybody except Smokey. October 27th at the AQUARIUS. 7 and 10 p.m. Tickets...
...problem of terrorism, as one result of the letters, dominated the opening session of the 27th United Nations General Assembly last week. Security was so tight at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters that delegates from the 132 member nations had to flash passes with photographs to enter the assembly hall. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim introduced a resolution calling for a halt in "terrorism and other forms of violence which endanger or take innocent human lives." Considerably qualified and softened to placate Arab na tions, the resolution was shunted to the General Assembly's legal committee for further study...
...room of the Reykjavik Sports Hall, gasped, and declared, "Bobby's blundered! He's dead lost!" Sure enough, Spassky forced an exchange of pieces that left Fischer a pawn behind and in dire straits. Then, just as shockingly, Boris committed a far more obvious blunder on his 27th move. "They've gone to pieces! It's like they're playing on brennevin!" exclaimed one grand master, referring to the potent Icelandic drink that the locals fondly call "Black Death." Fischer's second, the Rev. William J. Lombardy, a Catholic priest and a grand master...