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...their armed forces and reserves, including 41,000 national guardsmen, who are not considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there are now 16,000 Cuban soldiers supporting the leftist regime in Addis Ababa, and about 1,000 Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

April 29--win with 83-pt. total over UConn (56), Fitchburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...with 75.5-pt. total over Dartmouth (60.5), Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...conscientious objector. Led by Hawaii's Inouye, a much-decorated World War II veteran who lost his right arm in combat, the Senators wondered whether Sorensen would be able to approve agency operations that might endanger life. Sorensen also is a fierce Kennedy loyalist who still wears his PT-109 tie clasp. After the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, he was summoned to help draft the statement that tried to exonerate Ted Kennedy. Would Sorensen put family above national loyalty? Finally, there were nagging questions about his personality. He is intelligent, disciplined and principled, but he tends to be aloof, arrogant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: CARTER TAKES HIS LUMPS | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Whatever the motivation, the Times's allegations struck some sympathetic chords. Mary Ellis Carlton, veteran urban-affairs reporter for the I. PT, agreed that the paper has suppressed many of her reports about city problems; last week she resigned. Some editors at other California papers found the whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: California Split: Dog Bites Dog | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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