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...Smith Goes to Washington, an idealistic hick politician successfully filibusters the Senate into accepting his impassioned arguments. Last week another Mr. Smith - also a country boy, albeit a shrewd one from a far country - went to Washington seeking somewhat the same kind of improbable result. But to no avail. After four whirlwind days in the capital promoting his "internal settlement" approach to biracial government in Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith failed to impress even many of the 27 Senators who had invited him to Washington over State Department objection...
...first half, Harvard actually had several chances to score. An early Walter Diaz shot bounced back off the crossbar to no avail...
...People's Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union led by Marxist Robert Mugabe. As more of the Rhodesian countryside falls to the rebels, squabbling over territory could easily flare into fighting. Efforts by Nyerere and other front-line leaders to heal the breach have been to no avail. "We have been working to get them to build a single army, but we have failed,'' admitted Nyerere with a sigh. "What I fear is the possibility that once Smith is out and there is no single army and single authority, then really we can be in trouble...
...begin the Yankee eighth, bringing in Bird from the bullpen. Bird gave up only one hit, a home run to Munson which gave the Yankees the 6-5 lead they never lost. Al Hrabosky pitched shutout relief from then on for K.C., but his efforts were to no avail...
...being indicted on charges of looting $224 million from Investors' Overseas Services, a mutual fund based in Geneva. Almost immediately, he began trying to persuade the Department of Justice to drop the case. He even contributed $200,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, but to no avail...