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...well as some American allies at the U.N. Last week Ivor Richard, the British ambassador to the U.N., chastised Moynihan in a speech by implicitly comparing him with a shoot-from-the-hip Wyatt Earp, a vengeful Savonarola and an angry King Lear raging amid the storm. Moynihan was furious and decided that between criticism from the State Department and from U.N. diplomats, he had had enough. Kissinger urged him to stay. Said the Secretary: "He has done an excellent job. I have absolutely no reason to replace him." The White House later stated that Ford "has full confidence...
...Olympic offense could not beat Crimson goaltender Brian Petrovek more than twice, despite 34 shots during the game. Petrovek, who was cut from the Olympic team this summer, put in a very solid performance against the team that spurned his talents, holding fast against a furious Olympic rally in the final period that brought the score...
...plight of the refugees worsens, their anger grows. Most are furious at the successive Portuguese governments that agreed to grant Angola independence. Few differentiate between Communists, Socialists and other left-wing parties in Portugal. Luis Galvào Lopes, 39, formerly an Angolan office worker, spoke for many refugees last week when he cursed the former Portuguese high commissioner for Angola, Admiral António Rosa Coutinho, calling him "Red Rosa" and the carrasco (executioner) of the refugees. What about a moderate like Socialist Leader Mário Scares? "The garbage is all the same," he answered...
...journey was exhausting, the accommodations were wretched and furious sandstorms periodically lashed the seemingly endless rows of tents. Yet hundreds of thousands of banner-waving, Koran-thumping volunteers last week continued to swarm into Morocco's southernmost town, Tarfaya. "So many people want to volunteer for the Saharan march that application forms are being sold on the black market," said one sheik who had traveled from the east-central province of Ksar es Souk. While awaiting orders to cross the Spanish Saharan border 21 miles to the south -the "go" signal may be given this week -bejeweled women...
That caused a furious exchange of letters and apologies between Princeton and Harvard presidents, professors, administrators, athletic officials, student government bodies and Lampoon editors. It also brought editorials in The New York Times and The New York World, on the immature attitude towards football displayed by the nation's leading universities...