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...tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian politician to come to power in Pakistan's 32 years of independence, was hastily interred last week before the country was told of his death...
Amin was last reported at Jinja, 50 miles east of Kampala. He said in his own broadcast, allegedly recorded and transmitted from Soroti, 200 miles northeast of Kampala: "We have got our soldiers controlling the country...
Sources in Uganda believe that Amin has established a headquarters in Soroti, a town 200 miles northeast of Kampala. Much of Uganda, including all of Amin's home territory in the north, still lies beyond Tanzanian front lines. The invaders have not mounted an immediate military operation to hunt down Amin and his remaining loyal troops...
...early thaw allowed Harvard and other crews in the northeast to get an early start practicing out of the indoor tanks and in the rivers. So quick times could be the rule in San Diego where the Crimson can expect a rough ride on its trek back to supremacy...
...serve only to decrease investment in the U.S., as recessions historically do, without lowering the world or domestic rate of inflation permanently or appreciably. Any decline in social services for education is also a decrease in investment in human capital. The further deterioration of the established cities of the northeast will bring economic costs in policing, replacing, or repairing them, to say nothing of the potential waste in people or physical plant. Cities are the focal points of economic development; they are efficient and necessary. Any balanced budget will hit them hardest. The mayors of American cities know this...