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...Carter is moving up in Washington and Oregon, once considered leaning to Reagan, the Republicans cherish rising hopes that they will carry some states in Carter's Southern bastion - Mississippi, South Carolina, maybe Louisiana...
...only a Heil away from British-ruled Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, the German commander consistently outmaneuvers the Brits, even to the point of seizing the key bastion of Tobruk. For Rommel has a secret weapon: Alex Wolff, a.k.a. Achmed Rahmha, German-born, Berlin-trained spy, who early in life had been adopted by an Arab stepfather...
...such a black, dark place," he says, citing its physical and human resources. "But we couldn't remain because we simply didn't have the resources to surround ourselves with bodyguards." Cox will return not only because he feels The Herald must play out its role as the last bastion of a free press until another paper joins its ranks, but also because he loves Argentina and believes it can thrive as a modern, stable, pluralistic democracy. "We're on a very gradual curve and no one knows whether you're curving into a totalitarian government or curving...
Nothing underlined official concern at midweek more vividly than an extraordinary telecast of a recorded sermon by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. As head of Poland's Catholic hierarchy, a bastion of antiCommunism, the 79-year-old prelate had traditionally been denied access to the state broadcasting network...
There was more bad news to come. California's Field poll showed Carter running third in the nation's most populous state. Reagan led with 51%, Independent John Anderson got 23%, and the President scored only 20%. In Philadelphia, once a bastion of Democratic machine politics, a private poll taken last week by supporters of Senator Edward Kennedy rated Reagan ahead, Anderson second and Carter last. Insisted a gleeful Paul Kirk, Kennedy's chief strategist: "Candidate Carter is on a mudslide...