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...many years ago, the solution would have been the brisk dispatch of gunboats to the Persian Gulf. For a few militarily insignificant states to wreak economic havoc on most of the world's major powers would have been unthinkable. Today it is the gunboats that are unthinkable or almost so, perhaps not so much from moral fastidiousness as from a fear in the West that the Soviets would not stand...
Wiped Out. Out of these insect caucuses comes an agreement to destroy all creatures that prey on ants. If the mantis and the spider are to be wiped out, can man be far behind? With all due secrecy and dispatch, Hubbs and Lesko set up a remote experimental site to find out. Their research leads them to some spooky conclusions, and the strain of it all tells on Hubbs, who at one point agonizes aloud about the ants: "What do they want? What are their goals...
...devastated, underdeveloped satellite of the Soviet Union, China has remade itself into a largely self-sufficient, growing and fiercely independent world power. As the Chinese were getting ready for National Day (Oct. 1), celebrating the 25th anniversary of Mao's victory, a New China News Agency dispatch summed up the first quarter-century's achievement by reminding Peking's citizens that "this city, where even thumbtacks had to be imported before, is now producing ten times as much steel as the whole country...
...last months. Ford's selection of Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush as chief of the U.S. mission in Peking, and Presidential Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rush as ambassador to Paris, served this purpose while filling important diplomatic posts with men of stature. Ford also intends to dispatch Peter M. Flanigan, another Nixon stalwart, as Ambassador to Spain...
...implies. Upon his discharge in late 1946, the 20-year-old entered the University of Washington and pursued what he thought then would be a career in journalism. He spent two years writing for the school daily while selling ads, doing make-up and reporting stories for The Seattle Dispatch, a weekly newspaper that served the black community...