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...recent months, Kaunda has dealt with his opponents with increasing severity. Two weeks ago, his government arrested and jailed the organizers of a small dissident group that had been formed less than a month before to fight the introduction of a one-party system. More than 100 other opposition leaders, including Kaunda's former Vice President (and boyhood friend), Simon Kapwepwe, were detained without trial this year. Many were subsequently released, but not Kapwepwe. So far, the government has not interfered directly with the largest opposition group, the African National Congress, which holds 21 seats in the National Assembly...
...Crimson, which had hoped to go into the contest relatively injury, free was dealt a damaging blow early in the week when forward Chris Papagianis who has already tied teammate Felix Adedeji's Ivy scoring record of 13 points with four games remaining developed water on his right knee Papagianis will play, but Harvard needs him at something near full efficiency in order to crack a solid Penn defense which allowed Princeton only four shots on net last week...
...Republicans dealt with the young by taking in only the smiling, agreeable children of the Wad, showing America how patriotic and respectful some kids could be, and simply ignoring the "radicals" of Flamingo Park. The police successfully diffused the demonstrations by arresting few and beating up practically no one. With the Republicans in town, Flamingo Park became nothing but a carnival, an adjunct to the convention skillfully portrayed by anxious-to-please newsmen as an orgy of disruption for the folks back home. Every obscenity hurled meant more votes from the Wad; every egg on the dress of a delegate...
Patricia Thoreson 76, a Nixon canvasser, found in covering Mathews Hall Sunday night that among freshmen. "We're outnumbered, but not as much as I thought we were." During an hour in which Crimson reporters accompanied IThoreson Sunday, she encountered only one "antagonistic" person and characterized the people she dealt with as "generally friendly...
...army of the Khmer Republic has made no serious attempt to expel the Communists since its troops were dealt a disastrous defeat last December at Rumlong, 50 miles north of Phnom-Penh. That defeat led to mounting criticism of the leadership of then Prime Minister Lon Nol. He responded by canceling the constitution, dissolving the National Assembly and proclaiming himself the first President of the Republic-actions since ratified by a series of blatantly rigged elections...