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...obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children's fiction in 1972, and then came to roost in the best seller lists for well over a year. Among other hyperbolic comments was this one in The St, Louis Post-Dispatch: "Anyone who can read English should read this book...
...Ambassador to Thailand, Charles Whitehouse, arrived in Bangkok last week, something less than a red-carpet welcome awaited him. Student radicals had festooned the airport with banners reading BASTARD FORD, GET YOUR TROOPS OUT! and FORD, YOU DESTROY INTERNATIONAL LAW. Thai government officials denounced the Pentagon's dispatch of Marines and helicopters from the U.S.-operated Utapao airbase to the rescue of the American merchant vessel Mayaguez as "madness"; Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj reacted with what he first described as "displeasure" and later as outright "fury." At week's end an emergency Cabinet meeting voted to recall Whitehouse...
Many Senators and Representatives were skeptical at first that Congress would appropriate anything like Ford's request of $507 million for aid. But as public support mounted for the refugees, congressional opposition to aid faded quickly. The House Judiciary Committee acted with remarkable dispatch and agreed by a margin of 30 to 4 to clear the way for a vote by the full House on the bill this week, followed soon afterward by a vote in the Senate. Approval of a large sum is certain, perhaps even more than Ford requested, though the final figure was undetermined. Thus...
Muller is expected to name at least one Jew to a group of academics he will dispatch to Saudi Arabia, if only as a test case...
...line dispatch, Tass reported that the mission was aborted when an upper stage of the Vostok booster rocket began carrying Soyuz 18 off course; at that point, the rocket shut down automatically and the spacecraft was set free for return to earth. The two cosmonauts, Vasily Lazarev, 46, and Oleg Makarov, 41, seem to have escaped injury, but Western observers pointed out that if the upper-stage engine had fired a few seconds longer, the cosmonauts might well have come down in China...