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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith flew to the U.S. last week in a last-ditch effort to promote his faltering bi-racial interim government with the American public, and even before leaving Salisbury, he got an unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...
...balk by relief pitcher Warren Brusstar forced in the winning run in the ninth inning and gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Friday night and a doubleheader sweep in their last-ditch fight for survival in the National League East...
Once again the antihegemony issue threatened the talks. But when Fukuda dispatched Sonoda last week to Peking in a last-ditch attempt at compromise, the Chinese suddenly agreed to a rewording, declaring that the treaty "does not affect [either party's] relations with third countries." The Japanese foreign office was jubilant, claiming that its views had been "accepted...
They need help but where is it to come from? The Hooker Corp., which violated no laws at the time it was dumping, has helped to finance the investigation and the construction of a ditch to drain the dump, but acknowledges no liability for damages. City officials are unsure of their power to clean up what is, for the most part, private property...
...spending enthusiastically for everything from cars to clothespins, the American consumer lifted the economy out of a ditch in 1975 and has kept it chugging along ever since. The U.S. shopper still seems insatiable, but now the experts are becoming worried about him (and, of course, her). Says a top Washington economist: "The golden question mark for the economy is, what is buried in the consumer's mind?" Echoes Daniel Brill, the Treasury's chief economist: "I'm very concerned right now about what is going through the consumer's head, as well as what is coming...