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...result of these findings is a radical revision of long-held views of evolution. As recently as a decade ago, scientists talked about a direct, unbranching line of descent ?Australopithecus, Homo erectus, modern man?one following the other in logical order. Now all that has changed. "We can no longer talk of a great chain of being in the 19th century sense, from which there is a missing link," says Phillip Tobias, 51, Dart's successor as professor of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school in Johannesburg. "We should think rather of multiple strands forming...
...could not have been worse for discussion of another prickly issue: the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. Yet Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's visit to mainland China last week inevitably focused attention on Peking's insistence that the U.S. abrogate the treaty and thereby abandon another long-held position. To be sure, no one knew in May, when Vance's trip was scheduled, that it would coincide with the Panama debate; moreover, the Administration had been sharply criticized by Asian experts for ignoring China. Probably the impasse in U.S-Chinese relations will persist (see THE WORLD...
...Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner office once occupied by another foreign-born but very different ex-professor, Henry Kissinger. Brzezinski, 49, who is variously considered brilliant, arrogant and ambitious, is thus in a unique position to translate many of his long-held theories into policy...
What upset black Rhodesian leaders was that Britain had not seen fit to send Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland to the conference. This omission seemed to confirm their long-held view that Britain, once again, was evading its responsibility for the Rhodesian drama. The African delegates hastened to make clear that their objections were not to Richard personally. Even Robert Mugabe, regarded as the most militant of the delegation leaders, stressed that "the view we hold is by no means an attack on the chairman." Bishop Abel Muzorewa went further, saying, "I think he could become a tremendous chairman...
...working-class constituency, who stand to bear the heaviest tax burden. The mayor has survived earlier furors-including those raised by journalistic investigations into spending for improvements on his house and his use of city police to hector political opponents. But this one may well frustrate his long-held ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania...