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...Europeans are not returning, the Shaba rebels almost certainly will be doing so. The Tigers' losses were limited, considering the size of the operation, and the captured weapons can easily be replaced. In an interview last week with the Paris-based weekly Afrique-Asie, F.N.L.C. Leader Nathaniel Mbumba said that the Shaba incursion had resulted in an "irreversible situation" and that the rebels were determined to drive President Mobutu from power. The next stage in that effort may be a low-level campaign of harassment that Zaïre's 40,000-man army will find hard...
...smaller, less prestigious colleges are having to scramble even harder. Nathaniel Hawthorne College in Antrim, N.H., offers flying lessons as an inducement, and still has only managed to attract half the day students it needs to fill its freshman class this fall. "We simply can't sit back and let the applications roll in any more," mourns Ed Schoenberg, assistant director of admissions at California's Whittier College. Among Whittier's schemes for luring students: generous scholarships, attractive brochures, and "Spring Dessert Days," when candidates are entertained by alumni. Many colleges are placing advertisements in newspapers; some...
...Dallas school district was 58% white, 34% black and 8% Mexican American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with the situation that it appealed for the plan to be reviewed. Claimed N.A.A.C.P. General Counsel Nathaniel Jones: "The Dallas plan had become something of a model for large urban school districts that did not want to or felt for one reason or another that they couldn't completely desegregate...
DIED. Theresa Weld Blanchard, 84, who became America's first ladies' figure-skating champion in 1914, and won nine U.S. gold medals with Partner Nathaniel Niles during her reign as "Queen of the Ice" in the 1920s and 1930s; of cancer; in Boston. Rebelling against the constrained motions then expected even of free skaters in America, Blanchard pioneered a more sweeping international style and was often marked down by judges for her "unladylike" loops and swoops. She founded Skating magazine and served as its editor for 40 years...
...Nathaniel Weyl Boca Raton...