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...Hampshire has been hot and cold en route to a 6-3 ECAC record this season. Last Saturday night, the Wildcats stumbled to 4-1 loss to mediocre Penn, while Clarkson was murdering B.U., 6-2. Four nights later, Clarkson roared up to U.N.H. and ended up on the short end of a 3-2 upset...
...Chou En Lai comes to Washington to celebrate May Day with President Nixon. As a prank following the passing a ceremonial opium pipe, Tricia sends two Secret Service men to switch off William O. Douglas's pacemaker. Douglas goes into a coma and retires indignantly from the court. After a brief but heart-felt search by Attorney General Mitchell for a "Black Jewish woman Southern conservative," Nixon announces the appointment of John Dunlop to fill the empty seat, saying, "His work with the building trade industry has earned Professor Dunlop a well-deserved reputation as a strict constructionist." Roman Hruska...
...En route back to Washington from the Azores summit, White House Adviser Henry Kissinger chatted aboard the Spirit of '76 with five "pool" reporters who represented 88 other members of the presidential press party. Under persistent questioning, Kissinger retreated from plain background rules to "deep background." That meant information could be used only on the reporters' own authority, without attribution to those all-knowing "Administration officials." Thus shielded, he hinted that President Nixon might-just might-call off his planned Moscow trip next spring (see THE NATION). The pool wrote the report, cleared it with Kissinger and passed...
...move into an election year as a visibly active President. The other audience is the U.S.'s allies; the summits enable Nixon to assuage fears that he may make deals over the heads of the U.S.'s friends in Europe and Asia when he meets Chou En-lai in February and Leonid Brezhnev in May. "We are not going to Peking and Moscow as a broker for our allies," says White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, "but we will have their views in mind as we formulate our positions." A State Department official points out that the meetings...
Soviet Airlift In New Delhi, the mood was not so much jingoism as jubilation that India's main goal ? the establishment of a government in East Bengal that would en sure the return of the refugees ? was ac complished so quickly. There was little surprise when Prime Minister Gandhi announced to both houses of Parliament early last week that India would become the first government to recognize Bangladesh. Still, members thumped their desks, cheered loudly and jumped in the aisles to express their delight. "The valiant struggle of the people of Bangladesh in the face of tremendous odds...