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...narrowest sense, their alliance works out all right. No one is more surprised than they when they actually manage to get some of what they have dreamed of having. But like everyone else in this richly peopled movie, Lou and Sally fail to make any but a transitory connection. Constantly pulled back into their all-consuming fantasies, they have time and energy only to glance off one another...
...gateway between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean-and the choke point through which passes virtually all of the Middle Eastern oil on which Japan's economy depends-is the Strait of Malacca, a channel 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Here too Soviet naval activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class...
Princeton University--last year's champion by almost 400' points--will be challenged by a rejuvenated, freshman-laden Brown squad attempting to recapture first place honors. This weekend Brown, which finished second last year, defeated Princeton by the narrowest of margins in a dual meet confrontation two weeks ago, and now boasts the best win-loss record in the Ivy League...
...nations export just over 3 million bbl. per day, around 20% of gulf crude shipments, an amount that would not necessarily be critical at a time of a global oil glut. But there was the dire possibility that the Strait of Hormuz, 30 miles wide at its narrowest point, at the southern end of the gulf, might be closed because of the hostilities. Halting the flow of the supertankers that steam through the passage would have a devastating ripple effect (see following story) by preventing the shipment of oil from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the smaller gulf states. That kind...
...much deeper cut in spending ($26 billion) and a $20 billion tax cut as well; they were beaten 17 to 8 on a straight party-line vote. Liberals, with Carter's approval, moved to restore $500 million in aid to hard-pressed cities and lost by the narrowest conceivable margin: a 12-to-12 tie. The Republicans voted for the final resolution, which goes to the full House this week, but six liberal Democrats voted no. David Obey of Wisconsin promised to offer a liberal substitute for the Giaimo budget in House floor debate, and Carter, seeming to waver...