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Riding at anchor six miles off Egypt's war-battered Port Said was a strange sight-the 18,300-ton U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima. For nearly two decades, the warships of America's Sixth Fleet have been regarded by Egypt as unfriendly and unwanted. But now the U.S. Navy is playing a major role in helping the Egyptians clear the Suez Canal of the explosives and wreckage that have blocked it since the Six-Day War of 1967. TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn visited the Iwo Jima last week. His report...
...Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home-port a Sixth Fleet aircraft carrier in Greece. The Navy had already shifted other ships there, but the Greeks protested further moves. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, in a masterpiece of bureaucratese, recently said that home-port negotiations would resume when there was "greater harmony in our mutual perceptions...
Alan Bates makes a fine, fleet Butley. "Oh, if only they'd get on with it and let us teach!" he moans as he invokes the weight of spurious administrative duties to dodge yet another tutorial. He never allows the irony to become too heavy at moments like that; he always keeps quite the proper balance, making the ruse believable but also hypocritically funny. He is also a master of the throwaway and can brush off a fast line like a piece of dandruff off his rumpled suit. Confronted with a thick M.A. thesis entitled "Henry James...
...dangerous Len Rao in the discus and shotput, and the indoor GBC two mile champ, Mike Buckley in the mile and three mile. Harvard's long distance man Ric Rojas, spared heavy competition in Tuesday's Yale confrontation, will be expected to renew his season-long rivalry with the fleet-footed Buckley. This series of Rojas-Buckley match-ups began with a Rojas triumph at the wire in their first indoor mile claim last January. Since then Buckley has notched two decisive victories over Harvard's senior distance...
...Tigers possess some strength on the track, most notably a collection of fleet distance and middle-distance men. "We've got a very strong two mile relay team and a good group of long distance runners," an optimistic Princeton coach Larry Ellis said yesterday. Ellis said he felt the Tigers had a good chance if everyone performs "according to their potential...