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Come Again. President Nixon, still demonstrating considerable determination despite his Watergate woes, decided to campaign for a Republican candidate this week in a special election in Michigan. James Sparling Jr., the party's nominee in the heavily Republican Eighth District along Lake Huron, is locked in a close race with Democrat Robert Traxler. Since the G.O.P. has lost three of four special congressional elections this year largely because of Watergate, Nixon's decision to appear was a bold gamble. The election will be held April 16-ironically the day after the deadline for filing income taxes...
...Radcliffe varsity heavyweight crew crushed the Middletown High School crew by three and one-half lengths in a race on Lake Beseck in Middlefield, Connecticut, Saturday. Radcliffe completed the 1000-meter course in 3:45 with Middletown following...
Goose Hunt. A few days after the election, Cook's father-a wealthy Nebraska insurance executive who was active in the G.O.P.-set up a goose hunt in Eagle Lake, Texas, allowing his son to hobnob with such G.O.P. luminaries as Stans and Herbert Kalmbach, then Nixon's personal lawyer. Cook testified that while sitting in a rice field, he had used the occasion to hint very broadly to Stans that he would like to have the older man's backing when he tried to win the job of chairman of the SEC after Bill Casey...
...passersby. Then started the grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
Sahel's principal rivers, the Senegal and the Niger, have fallen to their lowest levels since the start of the century. Lake Chad has evaporated to one-third its normal size and has actually separated into four parts. The fishing village of Bol, once a lakeside settlement, today looks out on a vast wasteland of parched scrubgrass stretching 18 miles to the water. The lake's fish catch has been halved, creating a protein deficiency that aggravates an already short supply of grains. In northern Chad, nomads are eating boiled tree bark and roots...