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...still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals and bureaucrats, had apparently won about 62% of the vote and at least 236 seats in the new house. Golkar's popular vote almost equaled its total in the 1971 elections - the only prior test of the government's popularity since Suharto ousted the late, pro-Communist Sukarno in the bloody aftermath of an abortive leftist coup...
Thanks to the suppressed wage rate, clubs in the past were able to lavish considerable funds on extravagant expenditures. Prior to this season, salaries constituted only 27 per cent of total team costs compared to over 50 per cent in all other professional sports. Each team allocated a hefty 23 per cent, or roughly $2 million per year to player development, including minor league support, scouting, and spring training. Since each farm system only produces two or three players of major league caliber annually, the consolidation of four or five satellite teams into fewer clubs of elevated quality would successfully...
...compound these crimes, Kissinger lied to both the American people and the United States Congress. Many of these operations were in violation of the expressed will of Congress; they were kept secret. Prior to the widening of the war into Cambodia, the Kissinger-Nixon administration pursued a policy of heavy bombardment of supposed Communist base areas in Cambodia and Laos. When international press reports began to filter in, Kissinger lied in response to questions. When news of the bombing was finally leaked by persons on the National Security Council staff, Kissinger responded by tapping the phones of several staff members...
During the Paris peace talks, Kissinger again lied to the American people and to Congress. In October, just prior to the November elections in which peace was a central issue, Kissinger announced that "peace was at hand." Nixon won a mandate, despite growing concern over Watergate, in large part over foreign maneuvers such as this. Over Christmas, Kissinger played a central role in the decision to bomb Hanoi. More lives were lost; yet more of Vietnam was laid waste. When the accords were finally signed, Kissinger again lied, stating categorically that there were no secret protocols or understandings. He swore...
...narrow defeat came as a bitter pill to swallow for the linksters who were favorites to wrest the Greater Boston crown from the defending Eagles, having won the tournament for 15 straight years prior to last season. Individual Scoring Harvard B.C. Jim Dales 82 74 156 Dave Magdalenski 75 75 150 Dave Paxton 75 82 157 John McCann 73 80 153 Alex Vik 83 75 158 Danny Curtis 81 76 157 Spence Fitzgibbons 77 82 159 Joe McBournie 86 80 166 George Arnold 84 83 167 Jack Callahan 83 84 167 Total 798 Total...