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...course, no new Administration can be expected to provide relief from the choking dust and cloudless skies. But Westerners are looking for at least some help from Washington in protecting their lands and livelihood. Said Ron Francis, director of the Denver-based American National Cattlemen's Association: "We are against Government support in general. We support the law of supply and demand, but we need price support and emergency livestock loans." In Douglas County, Wash., Rancher Gary Dalin swelled with pride because his 16-year-old daughter Heidi had just been named local Beef Princess. But in other respects...
...York he misses. "There's no ambience in Los Angeles," he complains, "and no sidewalks. No place to walk to, no strolling or window-shopping. I love sunshine, but there have been times when I've looked up into another one of those endless cloudless days and told God, 'O.K., enough already. Can't you arrange for a drizzle...
Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...
...many motors realized instantly that the planes were not carrying the usual hordes of summer tourists. As each flight approached the plain between the capital city of Nicosia and the Kyrenia Range, which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk named Sami, smiled broadly as he unbuckled his gear and slipped out of his brown chute. "This makes...
...goes beyond this table except us," said a U.N. officer. Three Finnish soldiers wearing newly painted blue helmets and carrying Belgian FN rifles marched stiffly up and down. Overhead, an Israeli Mirage appeared and swiftly disappeared. Two Egyptian missiles fired and missed, leaving white puffs of smoke in the cloudless azure...