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...rapid succession the President met with four Prime Ministers-New Zealand's Wallace Rowling, Australia's Gough Whitlam, Britain's Harold Wilson and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew-all on their way from a British Commonwealth meeting in Jamaica. To each, Ford gave the same basic message: despite widely voiced doubts in Asia and Europe (see story page 29) about America's dependability as an ally, in the wake of Communist victories in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, those "setbacks in no way weakened U.S. resolve to stand by its allies and friends in Asia...
...HAROLD HARMON, 57, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who was one of the first 17 U.S. advisers sent to Viet Nam in 1954: "If we had pulled out ten years ago, Viet Nam would have fallen then. If we had stayed on another ten years, they still would have collapsed when we pulled out. This is a battle we lost. You can't win them...
...from Philadelphia to plead my innocence in this case. I am an attorney and will defend myself," said the distinguished gentleman to Indianapolis Magistrate Phillip Bayt. Few motorists travel 600 miles to fight a speeding ticket (82 m.p.h. in a 55 m.p.h. zone), but veteran Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen, 68, assured skeptical court officials that he had no other business in Indianapolis. With Stassen's arresting officer ill and unable to testify, the judge dismissed all charges, and the five-time Republican loser went home with a victory at last...
Skippers Jim Hammett and Steve Sandeck copped victories in the B division events, and Harold Clark did a competent job as their crewman. Ogden Ross rode shotgun in the victorious A division boat...
This year's winners were typical of that diversity. In fiction, the split award went to a traditional academic novel, Thomas Williams' The Hair of Harold Roux, and Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers, a savage morality tale that moves as fast as a whodunit and finds a nihilistic link between the Viet Nam War and the drug culture. The arts and letters award was shared by Lewis Thomas' The Lives of a Cell, a meditation on the structure of all living matter, and Roger Shattuck's life of Marcel Proust. For the recently created category...