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...maelstrom of political fury is building in South Carolina. This year's senatorial race pits Charles D. Ravenel '61 against incumbent Republican Strom Thurmond, a bastion of national, conservative politics...
Since 1974, foreign investments in the capitalist bastion of America have been growing by an average 13% annually, and now total more than $171 billion, or two-thirds as much as the sum of U.S. investments abroad. Moreover, the gap between U.S. investment in foreign countries and vice versa is narrowing. For example, U.S. capital did much to fuel West Germany's postwar economic miracle, but now West Germans invest more in the U.S. than Americans put into the Federal Republic...
...very least, the conference is a tremendous spoof on the Ivy League college as the bastion of male authority and respectability," a member who asked to remain anonymous, said yesterday...
...Communist help, the Addis Ababa junta (known as the "Dergue") has a strong chance not only of defeating the Somalis in the Ogaden, but also of strengthening its position against the Eritrean secessionists, whose guerrilla forces control most of that province. The Soviet press has attacked Somalia as a bastion of reactionary forces, even though the country was until lately one of Moscow's most cherished Third World allies. Recent visitors to Moscow have included Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro and Premier Ali Nasser Mohamed of South Yemen, which has become a refueling and staging point for the Soviet...
Vorster is a product of this society as well as its chief. One of 14 children, he was born in Jamestown, in the northeastern part of the Cape province. His father was a sheep farmer. Vorster attended the University of Stellenbosch, a bastion of Afrikaner nationalism, on a scholarship. He studied psychology and law and joined the junior wing of the National Party. In the early years of World War II he helped found the Flaming Ox-Wagon, a militantly anti-British, pro-German nationalist movement. Vorster was arrested by the pro-British government in 1942 and spent 14 months...