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...years he has been stalking his prey, sometimes discreetly, sometimes unabashedly. Last week Michel Rocard finally made his ambitions official. From the town hall he occupies as mayor of the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, the compact (5 ft. 6 in.), crimson-cheeked economist formally declared that he was challenging François Mitterrand for the Socialist Party's nomination as its candidate against Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the presidential election next May. Rocard gracefully suggested that Mitterrand, a veteran of more than three decades in French politics, could stay on as party leader...
...Capitalism doesn't allow free thinking," Ture said, adding, "Capitalism misleads people. It makes them think there are just ends." And since man has an inclination toward justice, he can easily fall prey to capitalism, he added...
Just how many yachts have fallen prey to smugglers is unknown; unless the boats or debris from them turn up, the U.S. Coast Guard lists missing yachts as "overdue pending further developments." But skippers in marinas along the Florida coast are increasingly convinced that many of them are not simply missing. Three incidents in particular have heightened boatowners' apprehensions...
While inflation made consumers see red, the skies remained a relentless blue. The heat wave again proved that despite the best air conditioning and modern technology, people can still fall prey to nature's whims. The victims as usual were the poor, the old and the helpless. In Fort Worth, Patricia Harris, 17, left her son LaMont, 2, in her car while she went to work as a $3.50-an-hour hospital orderly. Within three hours, the temperature in the auto had reached 130° and the boy had died. In Fulton County, Ga., police found...
...forest was too far off for a dash to safety. So, in an inspired gesture, Ramapithecus reached for a rock with both forefeet, reared back on his hind legs and heaved the stone at the predator. Startled to see this usually four-footed prey erect, the tiger cautiously retreated. But the ape-man's triumph was costly. Unaccustomed to the abrupt, upright position, he was left doubled over in agony with a piercing pain in his lower back...