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...seen. A sweeping speech by Henry Kissinger before the United Nations (see WORLD) gave President Ford some advance help. Not only could Kissinger point to a probable success in Africa, he also seemed to anticipate some Carter debating points. Ford too soft on Moscow? Kissinger was tough, complaining of "crude attempts" by the Soviets to sabotage U.S. policy. Ford not doing enough to prevent nuclear proliferation? Kissinger announced-without any details-a forthcoming major proposal for stronger international controls. Stalemate in the Middle East? Even though the Administration could not take full credit, at least it could point...
Slipping silently through woods and rolling farm lands about to explode with the new growth of the African spring, black guerrillas eluded the hard-pressed patrols along Rhodesia's frontier with Mozambique and posted crude signs on the fences of white farmers. The signs said simply: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES...
...Senate Acting Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, pondering why Carter granted the interview in the first place. Commented Robert Bailey, 47, a bakery operator from Freemont, Calif.: "I'm a Baptist myself, and for a Bible-totin' Baptist to say those things-well, they were crude. I don't see why he had to reveal all his deep, inner thoughts-to make a national confession. It certainly doesn't make you a great...
...Turin and Catania in The Seduction of Mimi, with their bossist politics and over-blown romantic intriques, provide the first, and the best, showcase for the talents of Lina Wertmuller. Her fluky--sometimes maudlin, sometimes racy--rhythm and pacing, the continual yak-yakking of her argumentative protagonists, even her crude flights of comical fancy all seem to fit in these cities. Here adults must act fast and foolishly in order to sustain the belief that their fierce chauvinism, mafioso loyalty and marital code of honor still mean anything in their industrialized, bureaucratized world...
...Civilized. Concord's races attract a diverse crowd that includes one-gallus retirees, peroxide mountain mamas and lonely textile workers from the nearby Cannon Mills. A crude spectator pecking order exists among fans. Families that applaud Chevrolets won't socialize with friends of the Dodge boys. Mechanic Howard Sussman buys a $4 ticket just to see the power slides. Says he: "My wife can't understand how I can fix cars all week and then spend the weekend watching them race...