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...even powerless to intervene in Biafra, since the Organization of African Unity has declared Nigeria's war to be a regional preserve. That leaves only one trouble spot-the Middle East-where U.N. intervention is possible, if unpromising. After ten months of mediation by Special Representative Gunnar Jarring, another arms buildup threatens the area. In fact, the Russians have signed an agreement with Cairo providing for massive new military aid beyond replacement of Arab losses during last year's Six-Day War. Shipments are now leaving Russia carrying the first installments of a promised 500 tanks...
...sore point. "You'd be amazed at how many people think they can find their way around coastal waters with nothing but a highway road map," says one Coast Guardsman. Take the case of the New York boater who radioed last month that he was drifting powerless "somewhere in Long Island Sound." After fruitlessly combing the Sound with search planes and patrol vessels, the Coast Guard finally located him, three days later, 100 miles out in the open Atlantic. That man was lucky he had a radio. So many do not-like the boatload of hippies...
...began, some of the most idealistic students set an example for their elders by avidly seeking reform through the political process. What they found instead was a seeming national swerve toward conservatism. The young, the poor, blacks and antiwar dissenters had profoundly affected government-something they once felt powerless to do. But then came a counterreaction of other Americans who feel threatened by change and civil disorders, to say nothing of youth's drug culture and new sexual freedom. As if to further dis illusion youth, the No. 1 domestic political issue may well be "law and order" rather...
Whether by hunting or herding or harvesting, a basic tribal function is subsistence in a harsh environment. As relatively powerless people, tribesmen believe in magic, usually hate outsiders and respect any kinsman who survives long enough to grow...
...four seconding speeches even for favorite-son candidates. All the Republican National Committee had really done was to delay the proceedings until prime time and to limit the seconding speeches for candidates to five minutes. The net works found themselves reporting a spectacle whose script they were basically powerless to enliven. As NBC's John Chancellor noted in retrospect: "Conventions were structured and their main patterns made up when people got their information from newspapers. Today we are seeing something that was made for a newspaper age that has survived into...