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...climb through the Communist Party was no less rapid. Elevated to the Central Committee in 1964, he became an alternate member of the Politburo in 1970, a full member the next year. With party rank came political office. Appointed Deputy Minister of National Defense in 1962, he was promoted to Minister in 1968 and has held that post ever since...
...volatile Horn of Africa, where the forces of instability are as much demographic as geopolitical; famine and tribal vendettas might turn out to be as destructive as Kremlin scheming. The superpowers might be drawn in, since Soviet as well as Cuban forces are entrenched in Ethiopia, while the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force has access to bases in Ethiopia's hostile neighbor, Somalia...
With 5 minutes left on the clock, the score stood 47-46 for Harvard, but with victory so tantalizingly close, the hoopsters got anxious and began to make errors. A rapid succession of six personal fouls on Harvard and an equally quick conversion of those fouls into 10 out of 12 points from the line for Brown soon put victory out of the Crimson's reach. A last minute flurry by Horne and "Sweetness" Hall with the fans chanting was not enough, and the hoopsters had to chalk up another heartbreaker to experience...
Wendy Sonnabrand, Cunningham, and Betsy Howe then proceeded to breeze through their respective challengers in a succession of rapid 3-0 matches...
...giant Mickey Mouse, like Andy Warhol's cans or Roy Lichtenstein's enlarged comic strips. Such pieces now have a period air of things meant to be consumed quickly-EAT ME! as the lettering on Alice's cake read. They constitute an art of rapid memorable icons that expected to be assimilated and exhausted in quick bursts, as indeed they were...