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...gets the feeling that Liz Kelly just enjoys swimming, that glory and records are not what she is after. She likes the challenge, the new strategy that a race brings. "Each race is so different," she says. The 200-yd. freestyle is almost an all-out sprint while in the 1650--a mile--"I count laps. After 500 yards, I just start thinking about keeping my stroke together. It begins to hurt so much...
...even as the U.S. was urging Sadat to engage the Israelis in private peace talks, the eager and worried Egyptian seemed determined to pursue his all-out style of public diplomacy. Before leaving for the U.S., Sadat last week sent off "An Open Letter to American Jews," published in the Miami Herald. He urged them to "revive the spirit of accommodation and meaningful coexistence" in order to "reinforce our belief in the oneness of the human cause." He complained that "the Israeli government in the past few weeks has been negative and disappointing...
...monthly "Easy Chair" columns and longer articles, Harper's Editor Lewis H. Lapham also frequently takes a conservative tilt. Lapham bridles, for example, at the all-out conservationist position in the energy debate. "People want what they want," he maintains, "and they will pay whatever prices they must, and so it is no use [for the Government] to tell them what's good for them." Lapham inveighs bitterly against a variety of adversaries and attitudes, including the empire building of major cultural institutions. He has no quarrel with readers who complain that his magazine often dwells, in classic...
Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic Cabinet had suddenly stalled. Its parliamentary pact with other parties was in disarray. An all-out general strike, threatened by the unions, held the possibility of toppling the government altogether. And a swelling chorus of leftist parties, led by the Communists, was demanding the formation of an all-party "emergency government." As the Italian Socialist Party newspaper Avanti! warned: "The countdown against Andreotti has begun. " From Rome last week TIME Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante cabled this report on the latest stage in Italy's ongoing crisis...
...bright for a rational, peaceful solution to the problem of South Africa. Black Africa is determined that majority rule must come to the country. Sooner or later, South Africa will face guerrilla pressure, although its armed forces could easily cope with the early stages of subversion. But an all-out military threat to South Africa could also bring a threat of Soviet involvement?and a dilemma for the West. Having found their voice at last, the unfranchised blacks of urban South Africa cannot be expected to turn silent again as long as they have legitimate grievances. And their demands...