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...record of Soviet efforts to influence Africa includes a number of expulsions and humiliations?in Ghana, Sudan and most recently Somalia, for example. In the Horn of Africa they acquired considerable political capital by helping the Ethiopians drive the Somali insurgents out of the Ogaden. But the war in Eritrea is a different matter. The province's secessionist movement, in the eyes of many nonaligned and radical Arab states, is absolutely legitimate, since Eritrea was unilaterally incorporated into Ethiopia by the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1967. Both the Soviets and, particularly, the Cubans are doing their best to keep...
These days Flick, a shy-looking industrialist with horn-rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...
...only loss of the weekend was number four Kevin Shaw's loss to Mark Conroe, 6-3, 6-4. However, the Crimson took the remaining matches, dropping only one set at first doubles, as the team of Shaw and Bob Horn took Hammond and Struble...
Shaw came back from his loss to Army with a convincing 6-2, 6-0 win over Keith Usisker. Horn, at number five, was the only Crimson to lose a set, dropping the first stanza 5-7 before coming back...
...page manifesto shrilly criticized the "feckless handling" of the situation in the Horn of Africa, the abandonment of the B-l bomber, the withdrawal of ground troops from South Korea, the 'neverending series of gaffes" in Middle East policy, and the "placating" of militants in southern Africa. Charged the Republicans: "In 15 short months of incoherence, inconsistency and ineptitude, our foreign policy and national security objectives are confused, and we are being challenged around the globe by Soviet arrogance...