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Lord Killanin's views are not diametrically opposed to those of Brundage. For example, he sided unsuccessfully with Brundage on the Rhodesian issue. But his new eight-year term does augur the beginning of some healthy changes in the Olympic movement. "I don't believe in open Olympics," he says. "I don't believe in professional Olympics. But I do think we have to realize that we are about to enter the last quarter of the 20th century." Killanin has already hinted at one possible change. In an effort to shake the image of the I.O.C...
...ROUND of secret talks between the United States and North Vietnam will begin very soon in Paris. The continued offensive by North Vietnamese and PRG forces in South Vietnam as well as President Nixon's determination to defeat that offensive by all the conventional military means available does not augur well for the renewed negotiations...
...fare of what is thought safe for those to be protected (they single out children; others single out the mentally ill or the potentially dangerous). Whether such protective efforts are directed toward violence. toward erotic materials, toward satiric portrayals of the church or the government or whatever, these efforts augur...
Well Prepared. Last summer's riots broke out as a result of a Catholic civil rights struggle. The latest explosions seemed to augur a resumption of the religious war that raged in Ireland a half-century ago at the time the Irish Free State was created. Irregulars on both sides-the proscribed Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Forces-have been running guns into Northern Ireland. When the current round of riots began two weekends ago, ostensibly over the jailing of Catholic Leader Bernadette Devlin for six months on charges of rioting and inciting to riot, both...
Dartmouth's win in last season's finale pushed the Big Green to a sixth-place finish, 4-?. in the Ivy League race, and the Crimson into seventh. 3-11, Harrison and his team hope to avenge that loss, and a Harvard win will augur well for a successful Ivy League season...