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...warm Gallic welcome ended several years of frostiness between Paris and Cairo and demonstrated a recent shift in the French diplomatic posture with regard to the Middle East. Giscard has been burned by Libya, whose Colonel Muammar Gaddafi recently made a power grab in the former French African colony of Chad. As a result, he has been discreetly backing away from his formerly enthusiastic support for radical Arab regimes...
...Britain's membership in the Community, say the leftists, has pushed up prices, cost thousands of British jobs and reduced the sovereign rights of Parliament. The militants resent the fact that Britain pays out large subsidies to support the economies of other Community countries. Some fear a Community grab to control Britain's energy policy and North Sea oil. The nation, they say, should look elsewhere for more profitable and sympathetic trading partners, including Communist bloc and Third World countries. According to a recent poll, 58% of the British public now agree that Britain's economy suffers...
Last week, following a new row, several senior, right-of-center Laborites all but quit the party to form a new, potentially powerful alliance of the center. The immediate provocation: a naked, and successful, power grab by Labor's radical left that gives it control over the selection of the party leader-potential Prime Minister-and effectively over future Labor government policies...
...freestyle Roberts swam four seconds under his lifetime best to grab second place behind teammate Countryman. In the 200-yd. free Chappell did much the same, becoming only the second swimmer in Harvard history to go under 1:40 and finishing second behind Hackett, who broke his own pool record...
...tracksters, always competitive in middle and distance events, can't be, counted out of the running altogether. Coach Hunt's strategy, to grab seconds and thirds in the sprints, hurdles and field events behind B.U. and then come back strong in the distance and relay events just may work. Anyone can go out and hire a team, but life is nasty, brutish, short, and above all, unpredictable. So who knows, the tracksters may win after...