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...while the varsity boat has maintained a fairly even keel as far as its makeup is concerned, the J.V. eight has undergone a furious battle of seat racing. The result of the shell shuffling is a second boat of nine new faces, the nucleus of which has come from last season's yardling boat which cakewalked to its Sprints triumph...
...necessary as a last resort. The U.S. made no commitments, in part because relations between Washington and Jerusalem are once again slightly strained. Although Ambassador to the United Nations William Scranton vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli repression on the West Bank (TIME, April 5), Israel was still furious over the cool tenor of Scranton's maiden speech, in which he described the occupation of East Jerusalem as "interim and provisional...
...Furious over what they labeled an attempt to "take over our holy places," Arab students in the West Bank city of Nablus abandoned their classes and took to the streets, singing pro-P.L.O. songs. Student strikes spread to other towns. Arab businesses closed. Six mayors and five city councils of important towns on the West Bank resigned...
...when staffers gave him the bad news: he was scheduled to campaign in seven Illinois cities that day, and was booked for five broadcast interviews, four speeches and three handshaking tours on the next day. He was to spend all of the third day stumping the Los Angeles area. Furious, Carter admonished his aides for not setting aside any time for rest. As he boarded his chartered Boeing 727, he told reporters: "I'm not going to answer any questions on the plane. I'm going to sleep." Moments afterward, however, he had second thoughts. Again flashing...
Strikes, demonstrations and violence continued to trouble Spain last week. In Basauri, a suburb of Bilbao in rebellious Basque country (TIME, March 15), a demonstrator was gunned down by the Guardia Civil; a furious crowd forced the guardsmen to retreat to their headquarters. In Tarragona, a worker fell from a roof to his death during a clash with police. Shipyard workers even struck in Franco's birthplace. But a quieter event of considerable political significance occurred last week in Madrid, where nine military officers were found guilty of sedition...