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This week the toes that bind the Continent belong to the aggressive voetbailers of Amsterdam's Ajax club and to the graceful giocatori di calcio of Turin's Juventus team. When they meet on traditionally neutral territory in Belgrade's Crvena Zvezda (red star) stadium, it will be a classic confrontation of styles. Ajax, shooting for a third successive cup victory, epitomizes a relentless, free-flowing new style of "total football." Attackers defend and defenders attack interchangeably. Juventus, winner of 15 national titles and known as the "grand old lady" of Italian soccer, represents the conservative, traditional...
...there is another word, insurgent, which you use to describe the opponents of Lon Nol in Cambodia, who was himself surely an "insurgent," with American aid, against the neutral Prince Sihanouk. Perhaps it is time that Lon Nol was "toppled...
With the streets eerily deserted except for government troops, Lebanese Premier Amin Hafez, accompanied by three Cabinet ministers and ten bodyguards, met with Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat, who had 50 armed guerrillas with him. During the night, on neutral ground at the Makassed Hospital, they worked out a cease-fire agreement under which the army hostages were released. Before dawn, however, heavy firing broke out anew at a Palestinian refugee camp at Dbayeh, across St. George's Bay. Soon sporadic shooting resumed in other areas and spread well beyond Beirut...
...base" myth seems harmless compared to the view that China's leaders intend that their friendship with the United States serve as a guarantee that the United States would not remain neutral in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on China. While it is interesting to read Joseph Alsop's report of President Nixon's refusal in February 1969 to join the Soviet Union in a preemptive attack on China's fledgling nuclear facilities, it may be unwarranted to draw the conclusion that the United States would ever sacrifice its basic national security interests for China's sake. During...
Harvard has so far remained formally neutral in the legal battle between a growing conservation movement and Consolidated Edison, although University property will be taken by Con Ed to build a pump-storage facility if the residents of the area lose their fight to keep the company out. Harvard's only contribution to this conservation battle has been President Pusey's 1970 letter to The New York Times aligning the University with the Scenic Hudson Preservation Committee...