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Crimson stalwarts Brad Desaulniers--who ordinarily plays in the number one position--and Chip Robie (no. 3) sat out the afternoon in an attempt to keep the score at a respectable level. But it was all to no avail...
...point of the propaganda is plainly to extract advantage for the Soviet Union and embarrass the U.S. as much as possible. From the beginning, U.S. protests were to no avail, as Soviet broadcasts into Iran encouraged the captors to keep the Americans prisoner. Pravda said that the U.S. had invited retaliation by restoring the Shah to the throne in 1953 and then, when he was overthrown, refusing to return him to Iran. When the U.S. rescue raid failed last April, the Soviet press burst out in triumphant indignation: "An abortive provocation," "a violation of international...
...perched on the ninth-floor ledge of a Los Angeles building was not preparing to float like a butterfly. Police, a clergyman and a psychologist tried for two hours to talk him out of jumping, but to no avail. In short, this looked like a job for Muhammad Ali. At least that is what one of Ali's p.r. men thought when he happened on the scene. Moments after being summoned, the former heavyweight champ arrived in his personal emergency vehicle-a two-tone brown Rolls-Royce-lights flashing. He ascended to a window near the desperate 21-year...
...avail. Leaders of the opposition, principally the Labor Party candidate for Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, plotted a parliamentary assault aimed at finishing off the government. To avoid such a showdown, the Begin Cabinet voted Sunday to ask the Knesset to call an early election on July 7, four months ahead of schedule. Begin's government had sounded its finale in the kind of unruly Cabinet session that had become a hallmark of his 3½ years in office. The issue had originally seemed relatively benign: a pay raise for the country's 65,000 teachers, approved earlier...
...system in a new one, and owners are usually reluctant to do so voluntarily. Las Vegas fire department officials, for example, claim they have urged the MGM Grand Hotel and other hotels built be fore the 1979 building code to install sprinkler systems and smoke alarms, but to no avail. "Retrofitting of the older hotels has always been an economic tug of war," says Clark County Manager Bruce Spaulding. Perhaps now they will. Says Gordon Vickery, director of the U.S. Fire Administration: "We usually lose people in ones and twos, and the public doesn't pay much attention...