Word: calling
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Sailors with the U.S. Sixth Fleet call it chicken of the sea. It is a seaborne version of the highway hot-rodders' "chicken" that is frequently played in the crowded Mediterranean by Soviet and American warships. Typically, a Russian vessel will dart and weave among U.S. ships, trying to frighten their skippers into turning sharply to avoid collision. These episodes usually end harmlessly-but not always...
...pornographers to tranquilize young subjects). The couple, after some nude Jacuzzi bathing, allegedly retired to a bedroom where, despite the girl's protests, Polanski forced her to have sexual relations with him. The girl never told her mother, who learned of the story later through an overheard phone call...
...insurgency, which the guerrillas call chimurenga (liberation war in Shona, the principal Bantu language in Rhodesia) is now in its fifth year. It is spreading like a malignancy. "It's worse this week than last," an off-duty "troopie" (soldier) declared in a Salisbury bar, "and worse this year than last." Nearly 2,600 guerrillas have been killed since the war began, but at least 2,000 remain active inside Rhodesia, 3,000 are based just outside the borders and thousands more are undergoing training in neighboring countries. The government's defense effort has benefited from the performance...
...Georgia peanut farmer with the crazy ambition of running for President? One man who cared enough at least to chat informally with the virtually unknown American was Takeo Fukuda, at the time Japan's Deputy Premier. Carter is not one to forget; on Inauguration Day, his first call to a foreign leader was to Fukuda, who by then had become Japan's Premier...
Mass Camp's bill #2558 would call for a temporary moratorium on prisons construction, and the formation of a citizens' non-vested-interest group of lawyers, doctors, sociologists and criminologists to make a through inspection of the system as it stands. The bill would give the crucial time and data we need for finding the most optimal organization, location, and construction of community-based rehabilitation centers. Charles W. Haynes '77 Chairman, PBH Prisons Committee