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...world have recognized that flag, and 15,000 armed men wait across the border in Zambia and Mozambique for the right moment to attack. Two months ago, the guerrilla forces of the Patriotic Front shot down a Rhodesian airliner, and last week armed insurgents made their first foray into Salisbury itself. Some observers think the government will fall...
...Maybe I'll become the Colonel Sanders of beer," Billy Carter chortled when he launched his foray into the suds business last November. That possibility now seems mercifully remote. Last week the Falls City Brewing Co. 'of Louisville, which produced "Billy's Beer," announced that it was going out of business and the President's brother's brew would disappear. Officials of the company, who were paying Carter a reported $50,000 a year for the use of his name and his promotional services, claim that sales went well at first but were dropping...
Somoza also said a Venezuelan fighter plane on temporary assignment in Costa Rica supported the rebels in their Sunday foray against Penas Blancas...
Dressed in a baggy brown tweed suit, Jarvis was barnstorming through Michigan on his first foray in support of a measure to lower taxes since the success in California of Proposition 13, which he cosponsored. His appearance was part of a drive to obtain the 266,000 signatures needed by this week to get a tax-cut referendum on Michigan's November ballot. The proposition, sponsored by Robert Tisch, the drainage commissioner of rural Shiawassee County in central Michigan, would cut property assessments in half, hold future increases to 2.5% a year, and permit the state income...
...Nazis have not been accused of any murders or kidnapings. Officials believe, however, that they were responsible for three bank robberies, netting a total of $270,000, as well as six raids on military depots in which weapons and ammunition were stolen. In one foray against a NATO training facility in Bergen-Hohne, sentries were surprised by intruders wielding submachine guns who also took weapons and ammunition...