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...deadlock in negotiations over Cyprus but may have exacerbated it. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called the cutoff "a tragedy" and warned that it could have potentially far-reaching effects if Turkey makes good on its implied threat to reduce its participation in NATO, thus jeopardizing the eastern flank of the Atlantic alliance...
...wasn't too good in the first half of the game, but in the second half I played split end rather than flank. They decided they'd play me more and made me primary receiver," McInally said last night...
LUGAR, A moderate Republican with views congruent with many in his conservative state, sees Bayh's voting record as his most exposed flank. Lugar has scored Bayh time and again on his liberal and inflationary record--coining the shibboleth of "the old politics of promise and spend, promise and spend." Indiana currently ranks 50th out of 50 in money received per capita from the federal government--in addition to last in dollars returned versus tax dollars collected. Republicans point out that Bayh, as a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, could have done better for his home state...
...this crisis of official authority that has spawned the controversial vigilante movements that are now being organized throughout the country. Sir Walter Walker, 61, former commander of NATO's northern flank, claims to have already recruited 100,000 volunteers for his "civil assistance" movement, which plans to keep power plants going and sewage flowing if labor unions launch a crippling strike. Colonel David Stirling, 58, a onetime commando leader, is organizing a smaller group of professionals, called "GB '75," for the same purpose...
...rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank of a Turkish column...