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Prime Minister John Vorster kicked off his National Party's campaign last week in what is being billed as the country's "crisis election." Looking rather like a grumpy air-raid warden, Vorster warned a rally of party faithful in the eastern Transvaal that only a National landslide on Nov. 30 could hold back the "swart gevaar" (black menace). Vorster has every reason to expect an overwhelming mandate from South Africa's 4.3 million whites. (The country's 18 million blacks, 2.5 million mixed-blood "coloreds" and 850,000 Asians cannot vote.) The latest polls indicate...
...There are more rats running across streets here than children," complains Chicagoan Vernie Ruffin. Indeed, in old neighborhoods on the city's West Side, the rodents, many of which have become immune to the poisons used by the health department, are having a population explosion. They bite kids, raid kitchens and even battle residents for tomatoes and cantaloupes growing in backyard gardens...
...Beirut that not even a token force of Palestinians is permissible in southern Lebanon. In the midst of last week's fighting, the Israeli government pointed out, Palestinian Katyusha rockets from across the border hit the Israeli towns of Safad and Qiryat Shemona-scene of a notorious fedayeen raid in 1974, in which 18 Israelis and three Palestinians died, and 15 people were wounded. If Washington cannot persuade the Israelis to back off, however, the U.S. is bound to lose a bit of credibility among the Arabs. Explained an American diplomat involved in the situation...
...apparently more complicated. Investigators say that it involved an old associate of Ullo's from his New York City days: Manhattan Mobster Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, a power in the Mob family once headed by Vito Genovese. Calderazzo worked in Gigante's gambling network. Following a 1976 FBI raid on his operation, Gigante suspected he had been betrayed by Calderazzo and ordered him to Los Angeles-ostensibly for his own protection...
...that the typical feature contract between newspaper and syndicate allows either side to cancel without cause upon giving only 30 days' notice. Thus was the New York News last May able to grab Peanuts away from the New York Post, where it had appeared for a decade. Syndicates raid each other's rosters as well. In one of the most spectacular snatches in syndicate annals, the Chicago Tribune-New York News in 1966 spirited Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") away from her longtime home at the McNaught Syndicate, reportedly by promising her far more than the standard fifty...