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...week he added to his roles of President, Premier and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces the title of Military Governor General of Egypt. As such, he can proclaim martial law at will. The move seemed a clear warning that Sadat is in a tougher mood and will brook no more demonstrations by students or other dissidents...
Died. Robert Cushman Murphy, 85, expert on oceanic birds and sea-life conservation; in Stony Brook, Long Island. In 1912 Murphy shipped aboard an Antarctic whaler as assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean...
...million "joint venture" of the Cambridge Electric Light Company and the Boston Edison Company would establish a bulk energy receiving station on the former location of the Fresh Pond drive-in theater on Alewife Brook Parkway...
Marchais insisted on the letter of the united-left agreement: both parties would back the leftist who had led in the first round, whether he had any chance of winning the runoff or not. Explaining his stand, Marchais said that he would brook "no malodorous subterfuge, no bargaining in the wings, no doubtful schemes." Mitterrand? In a television address, he pointedly avoided using the word Communist at all and glumly predicted that "the battle of the second round will be difficult...
...whole shooting match will go down the drain unless Torrijos and Tack [Juan Tack, Panama's foreign minister] stop acting like fire-breathing monsters," said an Administration official last week. "They've been taking courses from Castro, and sure as the sun rises the Congress will not brook that stuff...