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Christopher Ntete, exiled member of the South African National Congress, began the teach-in by pointing to April 25, 1974 as "significant because on that date the Portuguese empire collapsed." He added this collapse "spelled the doom of white supremacy in Southern Africa...
...really concerned with the doom and gloom reports," Robert J. Ginn Jr., Director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday...
...argument for why the U.S. government should not be in Korea is not enough for those who oppose a withdrawal of military support, there are enough facts to reason that it would by no means leave South Korea to inevitable doom when our immediate military presence no longer exists. As Zagoria himself points out, by 1981 "if present economic trends continue as they have," South Korea's gross national product will be six times that of the North. This points to the fact that South Korea is not only a prosperous nation, but as most of its income is poured...
...DOOM GLOOM GOBLIN? demanded the posters of the right-wing Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however...
Indeed, the once serious world of haute couture, seemingly oblivious to the voices that have prophesied its doom, sparkles with youth and joie devivre. This in spite of the fact that most of the designers are taking their inspiration from bygone eras and remote cultures. But if the collections last week are any indication, a remembrance of fashions and times past, translated into the present with bravura, can itself make history -or at least contemporary magic...