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...anchor of the whole non-Communist world," he said nearly in despair, "and because of righteous indignation this anchor is slithering in the mud." His fear was that in 1976 a new President would see his election as vindication of the antiwar, neo-isolationist position. This must not happen: "My survival depends on it," he said...
...sets aside for press visits, and lately reporters and camera crews have come in droves past the No Paso (No Trespassing) sign posted outside the 18-month-old Camp Cuba-Nicaragua. The show varies little from week to week: target practice, men running an obstacle course, simulated assaults through mud and underbrush. No automatic weapons or explosives are used; they are illegal. Finally, Bombillo Gonzalez climbs atop a tiny wooden podium and explains what these maneuvers portend for the hated leftist governments of Cuba and Nicaragua...
...sports column for the Cincinnati Enquirer. After seven years there, he switched to the Washington Star, then joined TIME last summer. He likes writing about sports precisely because it doesn't deal with the monumental: "It isn't nuclear physics. When I was in California, floods and mud slides were killing people. On the football field, catastrophe is a fumble." On the other hand, Callahan thinks, sporting events do give fans a lift. "I try not to get involved emotionally," he says, "but the feelings can sneak up on you. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about horse...
...demographic predictions hold and the pool of 18-year-olds drops in the future. Well, the point is that we don't need more soldiers, just as we don't need more new types of high-tech gadgetry that can't get off the ground or out of the mud. Recruiting and retention rates for military personnel rose dramatically last year; there was even marked improvement in racial and economic representation. These trends must be nurtured with higher pay and productive benefits, like guaranteed tuition support after discharge...
...destruction was almost as severe north of the city. Highway 101 was made impassable by mud and floodwater along several stretches. The highway's link to San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, was closed for only the third time since its opening in 1937, forcing thousands to take ferryboats. In Sausalito, a mud flow brought one hillside house slamming down onto two others, killing a woman. Two hundred yards away, Writer Brian Vander Horst watched. Says he: "It happened so fast that two rooms from the falling house were flashing with lights as they came down the hill. Mud...