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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Comedy 2001?Give or Take a Couple of Weeks." Julie Harris, Bill Dana, Shelley Berman and Lynn Kellogg join Host Steve Allen in a series of skittery sketches about the lighter side of life in the 21st century...
...flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters to swing Michigan's 21 electoral votes to Humphrey by 151,-000 votes. Many Wallaceites also defected in Southern and Border states upon which he had counted. "They all talked hard," said Republican State Chairman Bill Murfin of Florida, "but the softness was there, and in the last two weeks of the campaign they just melted away...
...handy way to win votes for next year's national elections. In what appears to have been a bid for support from the 3,000,000 Moslems living in the southern parts of the archipelago, Marcos dredged up the issue and signed a congressional bill asserting Philippine sovereignty over Sabah. The Philippine Moslems, who are mostly underprivileged and poor, would like access to Sabah's prospering economy. They also feel a kinship with Sabah's 200,000 Moslems...
Although he has on several occasions described the claim as strictly pro forma and pledged that "we will not act on it militarily under" any circum-stances," his signature of the bill triggered an angry Malaysian response. In Kota Kinabalu, Sabah's capital, effigies of Marcos were burned. A brief attempt at a cooling-off period (TIME, Aug. 16) failed. Malaysia passed legislation purporting to nullify the Philippine action and condemned it as a "composite of fantasy, fallacy and fiction." Now, diplomatic contacts are minimal. Largely overlooked in the imbroglio are the 600,000 Sabahans themselves, who, including...
...Bill Jewett...