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...delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them was a group of ten prominent Americans, headed by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who had defied a presidential ban on travel to Iran in order to attend the four-day official conference...
Desaulniers, attributed this inconsistency to his concentration, which he said yesterday was not at the level an extended four-day professional tournament required. This tournament, his first professional one since finishing his intercollegiate career at Harvard, found him "very mentally tired" from having to keep telling and psyching himself to perform at his peak, Desaulniers said...
...blue and white flag flying from University Hall announces, the Harvard Model United Nations (U.N.) began Thursday with nearly 1000 college students from 85 colleges participating in the four-day event...
...popular acceptance to complement the Soviets' military support. According to most accounts, Moscow's occupation force effectively controlled all of Afghanistan's major cities and highways, but still faced considerable resistance in rural areas; perhaps 80% of the barren countryside remained in rebel hands. After a four-day lull, attacks by Muslim insurgents flared again in the northeast provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar. Civil unrest, according to U.S. intelligence reports, erupted repeatedly inside Kandahar, an ancient trading center on the edge of the Desert of Death. Soviet forces also found themselves in confrontation with mutinous units...
...Washington, Jimmy Carter responded to Khomeini's sharpening of the war of nerves with a series of escalated warnings of his own. To focus most of his attention on the crisis, the President canceled two political trips: one a quickie visit to the Northwest, the other a four-day cross-country swing. He also scaled down his plans for his formal announcement of candidacy this week. Instead of the extravaganza originally planned, he will probably make a low-key speech from the Oval Office, then briefly drop by a fund-raising dinner in Washington...