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Inevitably, in an age of global interdependence, southern Africa has emerged as a new battleground ? so far mostly verbal ? for the superpowers. All through Secretary Kissinger's mobile campaign to try to turn the momentum of race and politics in southern Africa from deepening confrontation to negotiation, the Russians were firing rhetorical broadsides from the sidelines, as if the trauma of another siege of shuttle diplomacy were almost more than they could bear. They accused the U.S. of "gimmickry" and of seeking to preserve "not only racial oppression, but the entire neocolonialist setup in Africa...
Harvard Square will become the battleground for a muffin war when the Mug'n' Muffin chain begins to bake muffins at a new restaurant opposite the Country Kitchen muffin house...
...state areas, crack at least a couple of the Southern states, and capture a pair or more of the heavyweights, such as California and Pennsylvania, to reach the magic 270. It will take some doing, but Ford claims to be encouraged by the results of private polls in 18 "battleground" states, which include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, where he thinks he stands a chance of winning. An assessment of the Ford-Carter standings...
...tennis court and all sorts of extra-tennis emotions are stirred: recall, for instance, the reverberations of the Bobby Riggs-Billie Jean King match. Something more than just racquet meeting ball all too often becomes involved, and that is what is making mixed-doubles play a fresh and fascinating battleground in the ancient war of the sexes...
...Angeles, a one-hour wait to tour Universal Studios is not uncommon, and the Sheraton-Universal Hotel is filled to capacity. Visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania face a two-hour wait on weekends for one of the 77 guides; 2 million toured the historic Civil War battleground in July-a 40% increase from last year...