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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! The green flyer on the campus bulletin board promises the greatest little cross-country bus "ride ever. There's no bus terminal, though. To get a reservation you have to shove $10 and a return address under the front door of an anonymous San Francisco connection. Even then, just where or when to find the bus remains a mystery. A note in the mail a few days later tells you to turn up, with a sleeping bag, at an intersection in the Haight-Ashbury district by sundown Wednesday. Says a friend: "You might...
...because she and her husband enjoy the western movies newly available in China. The general store transplanted from the hills of West Virginia prompted her to ask if it had been a coop. But it was the reconstructed kitchen of an Italian immigrant of the 1920s that elicited her greatest admiration. Although it was supposed to show the poverty and hardship suffered by America's immigrants, Cho Lin, the warm and plump wife of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, saw it quite differently. "They certainly had high living standards," she marveled...
...Soviets have helped Carter out with this handicap of his. They lied to him about their involvement in Africa. Andrei Gromyko's eyeball-to-eyeball prevarication on that occasion is perhaps the greatest breach of diplomatic trust yet experienced by Carter. He believes the Chinese have never lied to him. Beyond that, when the President discussed the world with Teng, both men were somewhat surprised at how much they agreed about Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East. Even at this tentative stage, the Americans who are looking ahead to the Brezhnev meeting see that there will be substantive confrontations...
Washington's greatest fear now is a military coup, which would inevitably spark a civil war and adversely affect any U.S. presence for many years to come. Says a State Department official recently returned from Tehran: "There is no question that a military takeover would be most dangerous for U.S. interests. It would blow away the moderates and invite the majority to unite behind a radical faction...
...greatest challenge the assembly confronts, however, is student apathy. The Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), the assembly's first political party, is championing broader participation in the assembly as one of the key ideas in its platform. Although Winthrop said he will not run for re-election because he hopes to become a model for non-member activism, it remains to be seen whether the assembly can generate enough widespread student support to build on its recent initiative...