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...there are still some bone-cracking problems. With the spreading popularity of higher, more rigid boots, orthopedists report an increase in "boot top" fractures. These mishaps are more serious and take longer to mend than the more common ski injuries, a simple fracture of the anklebone or a low-level spiral fracture of the tibia and fibula...
Arabs stationed in Europe are equally careful. They are hounded by, among other dangers, what appears to be low-level Israeli harassment. Members of something called the "World Organization for Individual Welfare and Security, European Branch" have tossed rocks through embassy windows and sent Arab diplomats letters calculatedly filled with frightening detail. "The fact that you are married to an English girl will not help," goes one such letter. "We have watched you drive unharmed around London in a blue Mercedes while your country condones terrorist activities. Don't blame anyone if something happens to you." Says one recipient...
...position that Gulf's American dollars are all that stand between the guerrillas and military victory, as a few of Gulf's critics had maintained. "Many of the 60,000 Portuguese troops now in Angola... appear to be underemployed," notes Farber, in reaching his conclusion that militarily, "a low-level stalemate appears likely...
...PALC organizers were wrong about Harvard. Commitment to principle by a University is dismissed in the Farber report as useless symbolic action; students are intimidated by Farber's description of a world in which Gulf or some other foreign oil company will always be at Cabinda and, if the "low-level stalemate" persists, white Portugal will always rule black Angola...
...enormous cost of covering conventions has caused all three television networks to cut back on low-level staff and camera crews in order to stay within a total budget of $22 million for this year's meetings. CBS will have only 30 cameras in Miami, v. 51 in Chicago four years ago, and has reduced manpower from 725 to 525. NBC has cut its convention staff by 40%, but claims that the use of more mobile units will improve overall coverage. Newspapers are not immune to the cost squeeze either; the New York Times has shrunk its convention contingent...