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...scene: Port Washington, N. Y. "Stretch, Dorothy, stretch. Open up, get your arms up. Move it, keep it going." Although she has just won her third consecutive U.S. figure-skating championship, Dorothy Hamill is training again. She has been up since 5 a.m., on the ice at Twin Rinks since dawn. First she practiced school figures, tracing and retracing circular designs, skating backward and forward in perfect circles. Now it is nearly noon. Sweating and struggling to maintain her radiant smile, Dorothy, 19, is skating her freestyle program. As she swirls over the ice, leaping and spinning at presto pace...
...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
...F.N.L.A.'s major supply point for arms from neighboring Zaïre. The M.P.L.A. claimed to have seized a string of towns in northern Angola, including Caracassala, Cangala, Samba and Vista Alegre. M.P.L.A. forces were also reported closing in on the seacoast city of Ambriz, the only port held by the F.N.L.A. If that city falls, some foreign intelligence sources predict, the F.N.L.A. may collapse entirely...
...mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with its aid, and, unlike the Soviets, can claim to be part of the developing world. The Mozambicans, for instance, have denied port facilities to the Soviet navy and have criticized the Russians for "pushing us too hard...
Just before dawn, seven Indonesian warships knifed into the waters off Dili, a faded coffee port that serves as the capital of the Portuguese colony of East Timor. Minutes later the ships' guns lit up the night sky. Indonesian marines with full packs and battle dress charged ashore from assault boats, while planes arced overhead dropping paratroopers. Within a few hours it was all over but the mopping up-and that apparently was bloody. Ham radio operators 400 miles away in Australia picked up the last faint pleas from a lone transmitter: "Women and children are being shot...