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Even before the burglary of the psychiatrist's office, the White House had begun to shift its clandestine activities toward the effort to re-elect Nixon. In 1971, Nixon's prospects for re-election were not promising. A Harris poll in May showed Muskie with an eight-point lead over the President, assuming Alabama Governor George Wallace would run. Nixon, who had declared that "when I'm the candidate, I run the campaign," did not trust the Republican Party professionals to handle his re-election drive. He wanted a separate organization. A group of admen and pollsters were consulted; they...
Hardly anyone in Argentina expected that the transition from the military junta of General Alejandro Lanusse to the newly elected civilian government of Peronista President-elect Hector Campora would be peaceful. Last week trouble came, although not, perhaps, in a manner that many had expected. On a busy Buenos Aires street, an urban guerrilla from a Trotskyite group called the People's Revolutionary Army shot and killed Rear Admiral Hermes Quijada, former chief of the Armed Forces Joint General Staff...
...Buenos Aires apartment. Lanusse agreed to back down on a demand that Campora categorically censure the guerrillas. Campora, on his part, recognized the junta's right to combat terrorists as it sees fit until his inauguration, when martial law will be replaced by less stringent measures. The President-elect had good reason to compromise. If the terrorism were to continue, the generals would presumably have a strong excuse for trying to postpone, or even prevent, his assumption of power...
...cattle) for brides, Nigerian men are delaying marriage, and girls who might otherwise have been supported by husbands now take to the streets when they need money. Although prostitution is illegal in Nigeria, leaders of the union have hired a lawyer to press their case, and their president-elect, a high school dropout of 26, is taking a hard line. "We have rights," she says, "and we will go to any lengths to exercise them...
...beliefs, morals and judgments, and the merits of each individual situation that physicians are always going to come under fire from some group if they make the issue an open one. Many will candidly admit a vehement opposition to actual mercy killing, but say that they may no longer elect, for instance, to give penicillin to treat the pneumonia of a terminal cancer patient...