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Of the nation's 216 million people, nearly 1 million are descended from the Indian tribes that were sprinkled about the continent when the Europeans first came settling. The Indians, since the confrontation at Wounded Knee in 1890 that marked the end of their serious resistance to the white...
Big-Power Vacuum. And Podgorny? As the first top Soviet leader to visit southern Africa, he plainly hoped to capitalize on the Russians' success in backing the victorious forces in Angola-and to take advantage of the vacuum of big-power influence on the continent. The message: Moscow, not...
Died. Frances P. Bolton, 91, for nearly 29 years a member of Congress from Ohio; in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Bolton was named to succeed her husband Chester in the House when he died suddenly in 1939 because, presumably, "I knew his thinking. Actually, I didn't have the slightest idea...
Mixed Blessing. By contrast, the U.S. will probably not be importing much gas from Europe. Holland, the Continent's leading producer and exporter, is phasing out shipments to other countries in an effort to conserve its supplies. Britain, too, intends to hold on to most of the gas that...
"What does an ex-sex symbol do?" Raquel Welch, 36, once asked her friend Henry Kissinger. But Raquel is hardly over the hill yet. After a three-continent swing with a song-and-dance routine, she took a new act to Lake Tahoe, Nev., where she played to enthusiastic audiences...