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What doomed the mission from the start--and what the Australians find so hard to comprehend--is that the formulation of American policy virtually precludes input from overseas. American voters come first; allies place a very distant second...
...mission is accomplished, then that is it. Working with that in mind makes it much easier. My security people tell me that they really worry about me, especially when I'm out in crowds shaking hands. I have explained to them that I cannot afford to be distant from my people because whatever power I have came from them. And I have to know what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong. If I just sit around here, I will never find...
...loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...
...miraculous, so did a handful of villagers who haltingly recounted the tale of the poisonous cloud. Sometime between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Aug. 21, families were finishing their evening meal and settling down for the night when the volcanic lake bed erupted. Some villagers remembered hearing a distant sound. Then a strange odor permeated their huts. "It was like burned gunpowder," suggested one survivor. Another likened it to "eggs, bad eggs." When villagers began to feel dizzy, panic set in. People who were not killed immediately fled into the dirt streets. Many were later found in the bush...
...substantial portion of Soweto's black population, against the township's black councilors. The system of renting houses within the townships has been a source of resentment for years. Until recently, blacks were unable to purchase property in the townships because they were legally regarded as citizens of some distant "homeland." Last year, however, the government changed its policy and permitted them to buy township homes. Some 10,000 families have since done so, but most residents cannot afford the $800 or more that it costs to purchase a small, four-room house of brick or cement- block construction. Therefore...