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Slowly they emerged from their sanctuaries deep in the African bush. Some were barefoot local fighters, clad in ragged shirts and frayed pants, clutching worn, dusty AK-47 machine guns. Others were elite commandos, wearing crisp camouflage fatigues, polished combat boots and leather holsters, bandoleers of machine-gun bullets slung over their shoulders. A few even sported gleaming Soviet medals on their breast. Startled whites stared in anxious silence or menacingly shook their fists as they passed by. But in the villages and urban townships, thousands of Rhodesian blacks gleefully hailed their return with an exultant chant: "Zimbabwe, we love...
There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...
...Iowa, where the organization that Kennedy is building is sound and well run, campaign aides say supporters are growing disappointed with the Senator's poor performance and with his continued inability to give a crisp and convincing reason why he is running for President. The Iowa operatives are now saying that only a superior performance in the January debate against Carter in Des Moines can help them carry the state...
...crisp evening last week, Amy Carter stepped up to a podium on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, and pressed the button controlling the lights on a 30-ft. blue spruce and 50 smaller trees around it, one for each state. But for the first time since Calvin Coolidge began the tradition in 1923, the big tree did not burst into light. Only the white star on its top and the tiny blue bulbs on the smaller trees blinked on. "Amy has lit 50 trees-one for each American hostage," explained President Carter to the 7,500 surprised...
Fleming, who tallied a game-high 33 points, made up for his lackadaisical play on defense with deadly shooting and crisp passing. As a team, however, the hoopsters did not improve on their shoddy first period performance. The two teams traded baskets for the final ten minutes as Harvard maintained its 15-point lead until the buzzer...