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Certainly, Lance must be given every chance to knock down all charges that are being made. The man's ordeal has been severe. But for the nation, the overriding issue is not Lance's difficulties or his fitness for office but just what the affair has revealed about Jimmy Carter. Although the situations are worlds apart in both kind and importance, that familiar Nixonian question is at least remotely relevant: What did he know and when did he know it? Indeed, as various investigations continued last week, some officials who had been involved in checking Lance's record prior...
Taxes on the West Los Angeles home that Ethel and Ralph Littrell paid $50,000 for in 1961 have risen an average of almost 33% a year, and the last increase earlier this summer seems to knock them out of the game. They have three months to come up with half of their newest tax bill-$5,000 a year-and are already preparing for the shock of having to sell out if they fail...
...extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many countries to a minor public-health problem. Similar success was achieved under World Health Organization auspices in Asia and parts-but by no means all-of Africa...
...attempted coup last year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory adjacent to Libya and Sudan. Libya, in the meantime, is sending military aid to Ethiopia-the only Arab state to do so. All in all, the situation is so complex and unstable that it has become difficult to tell...
...Backstate at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, the Kris and Rita show was already in progress. Bursting out of his dressing room, he knocked anxiously on her door. "What should I do with all this fruit?" Glancing at the gift basket, she replied, "We'll take it home to the kids." He nodded happily and left. A moment later, he knocked again. "What time is it?" She told him. A third knock. "Why is the phone in my room ringing?" At that, Rita rolled her eyes and smiled sweetly: Kris Kristofferson is one superstar you take exactly...