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Will Egypt reopen the Big Ditch? Though President Anwar Sadat has announced no definite plans to do so, most Egyptians are convinced that he is only too anxious to proclaim the nation's hard-won repossession of the Suez by opening it again to the world's merchant fleets. A small group of high-level Egyptian officials, with Sadat's blessing, is already hard at work on plans for a rebirth of the Suez Canal and its cities...
...debt of the Jackson campaign. In his defeat of Mayor Sam Massell last October, Jackson polled 21% of the white vote. That was a considerable achievement. Massell gave the contest an appallingly racist tinge by branding Jackson a do-nothing and a potential black firebrand in a last-ditch effort to scare up white support. The Massell strategy backfired with the voters and many whites quietly switched their allegiance to Jackson...
...Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition government of moderate Protestants and Catholics...
...delay was caused by a rather large, deep and quite dangerous ditch in the ice caused by the Zamboni. The ice cleaning machine stalled in the middle of the rink between periods. In his desire to get it started again the driver kept revving up the engine, thus producing a great amount of ice-melting exhaust...
Raynor's tying shot came with 21 seconds left. Harvard managed one poor last-ditch corner shot by Arnie Needleman and Beattie grabbed the rebound and called the fatal time...