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Navy's Mark Heinrich will defend his titles in both the backstrokes, Dartmouth's Kent Whitaker and Todd Taylor will attempt to repeat as kings of the 100-yd. breast stroke and 200-yd. individual medley, respectively, and Yale's Mark Devore will take on the field in the 100-yd. butterfly. Cornell's Paul Steck will seek his third consecutive one-meter diving crown...
...freestyle, but the question will be whether Crimson freshman ace Tim Maximoff can hold off Princeton's freestylers for second. Harvard's Mike Coglin and Malcolm Cooper will be favored in the 200-yd. IM and 50-yd. freestyle, respectively, before the Tigers attempt to defend its crown in the medley relay...
Which is why SALT II is so important. The coming debate over the treaty will be an ideal opportunity for Carter to define and defend his foreign policy in concrete terms. The treaty fight will most likely leave blood on the floor of the Senate chamber and around Capitol Hill; the Carter administration has made lasting enemies over the Panama Canal and Taiwan issues, and they are sure to mass forces for SALT II. Minority Leader Howard H. Baker (R-Tenn.) served notice two weeks ago that the GOP is declaring open season on Carter's foreign policy, ending...
...Thailand two weeks ago. Carter should hold new consultations on the treaty with the NATO nations, who have been complaining that SALT II fails to limit Moscow's Eurostrategic forces," intermediate-range missiles which threaten Western Europe. We should guarantee that we possess sufficient cruise missile capability to defend Europe against aggression. Moreover, we should also point out that SALT II will lessen the chances of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear exchange, which inevitably would drag in Western Europe...
Peking's official news agency, Hsinhua, called the expedition a "counterattack to defend the country's borders." Most observers believed that the Chinese would withdraw after "punishing" the Vietnamese. But U.S. officials were nonetheless alarmed by the ominous step-up in tensions between the erstwhile allies. The administration called on both nations to withdraw their respective forces from foreign territory, and also urged the Soviet Union, now Hanoi's chief patron and bankroller, to act with restraint. Said State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III at a hastily called press conference: "We are committed to the territorial integrity...