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...composed mostly of students, it has opened an office in Baghdad and set up a clandestine radio in the area, straining Iraq's relations with Iran. This threat has prompted a growing military alliance between Iran and Pakistan, neither of which wants to lose a strategic chunk of its territory...
...sundry promoters went through the motions of finding out last week by staging a kind of mini-Olympics called "The Superstars." Ten top professional athletes were invited to compete in any seven of ten events, excluding their specialty. In return each competitor received an $8,500 chunk of real estate in a new Florida resort community called Rotonda West and a chance at $122,000 in prize money...
...budget has been left unspent and that it may now be too late to recover the funds. If true, the situation at the YRB becomes even more appalling. Not only will staff members have been deceived, but the kids of Cambridge will have lost a huge chunk of money that is rightfully theirs...
...would be willing to grant independence to the West Bank, the area west of the Jordan River captured by Israeli troops during the Six-Day War. Once Israel returned the area, Hussein would be agreeable to a plebiscite of its Arab population. He thereby appeared ready to cede a chunk of his kingdom and a quarter of his population in return for peace and Arab economic support. But he had hardly begun his Washington rounds when Israel seemed to knock down his offer...
Amilcar Cabral, 48, was something of a rarity among revolutionaries-soft-spoken, moderate and a reluctant convert to violence. He claimed to be a friend of the Portuguese, whom he was successfully driving out of Guinea-Bissau, a Switzerland-size chunk of West African swamp and jungle. There was nothing moderate, though, in the manner of his death. Two weeks ago he was gunned down as he walked with his wife and a bodyguard outside a borrowed villa in Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. The bodyguard was also killed; Mrs. Cabral survived...