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...Clark's first foray into controversy. As an antiwar activist in 1972, he had visited North Viet Nam to investigate U.S. bombing of civilian targets. Shortly after the embassy takeover last November, he headed for Tehran as President Carter's negotiator, but turned back when Khomeini refused to receive him. Among others who accompanied him last week were Nobel Laureate George Wald of Harvard, Civil Rights Activist Paul Washington, and Clergymen John Walsh and Charles Kimball, who had visited the hostages in December. Their purpose, according to Wald: to convince the Iranians that the hostage crisis "has become...
...fact, it was largely a media event staged by the Carter forces to create some hoopla for the President's first avowedly political foray of the year, a twelve-hour swing through Ohio last Thursday. Ostensibly the purpose of the trip was to win votes in the Ohio primary this Tuesday, one of nine that once looked like the exciting windup of the nomination campaign. But all the drama had gone out of that contest, since Carter, after winning primaries in Arkansas, Kentucky and Nevada last week, was by his own count only four delegates short...
...shirt. Or so said one top presidential aide, joking about the fact that his boss abandoned the White House Rose Garden last week and started campaigning again after 186 days of self-imposed isolation. Still Carter was only half free as he made his first political foray since the capture of the Tehran hostages. Though he had just swept to solid victories over Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the primary elections in Indiana, North Carolina and Tennessee (losing only in the District of Columbia), Carter was not sure how he would be received by a public fed up with inflation...
...Israelis' declared intent was to protect their northern settlements from Palestinian guerrilla raids that both the U.N. and the Christian Militia forces seemed powerless to stop. Unlike their previous search-and-destroy missions into Lebanon last May and September, however, the Israelis' foray this time was bloodless. Then, by week's end-in a surprisingly cooperative response to U.N. entreaties and some arm twisting from Washington-they began to withdraw...
Instead of a friendly international foray, the four-game series was marked by the Cubans' determination to approximate Saturday night wrestling matches. This was the same Cuban team which broke Kentucky All-American Kyle Macy's jaw in the 1979 Pan-American games...