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AMHERST, Mass.--The light at the end of the tunnel looms brighter for the stickmen after yesterday's 11-8 victory over the UMass Minutemen. The Crimson, now 10-2 on the year, posted its first win over the Minutemen since 1971 and its first ever on the UMass home turf...
...picture is hardly brighter among the regular troops of the former Rhodesian government. Some 100 middle-ranking white officers, out of 800 active during the war, have handed in their resignations. More than 900 members of the elite Selous Scouts have quit, and many of them have joined the South African Defense Forces. Not even the influence of Lieut. General Peter Walls, the Rhodesian armed forces chief who was named last week to a joint military command, has fully restored confidence among the white officer corps...
...risky, people accepted the system because it held out the promise that hard work and talent would lead to high rewards. Not everybody was created economically equal but, with the indefensible exception of some minorities, everybody had a full, free opportunity to prosper. Ever distant frontiers and ever brighter tomorrows created a nation of optimists, who believed that a rising tide lifts all boats. This was the U.S. social contract...
...first glance, the world oil scene looks brighter. Just as economists predicted, sharply rising oil prices and the slowing world economy have at long last begun to put a pinch in petroleum demand. Consumption in the non-Communist world is down by about 3% from 1979 levels, and in the U.S., oil consumption was by last week a full 10.3% lower than a year ago. This slump in demand has resulted in a softening of spot-market oil prices. Petroleum that was selling for $40 per bbl. in late December now goes for about $33. World oil stocks...
Below a diamond white momentarily flashed the clouds. For an instant I thought it was our wing beacons. "Jeesus, what was that," I said as it flashed twice more, much brighter. "Lightinin', damn it. Don't you know what lightinin' is boy?" Lightining. Building in distant flashes, growing in intensity as we moved further east, showing a pearly, limitless vista. Silver veins tearing from cloud to cloud quietly. It clawed below, ripping New York silently...