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WASHINGTON--Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a major civil rights bill yesterday, ending a four-year battle to restore broad protection for women, minorities, the elderly and the handicapped.
His two free throws in the face of terrible pressure seemed to restore, if only for a moment, the purity of his sport.
Though the outcome scarcely threatened Botha's control of Parliament, where his National Party holds 133 seats, vs. 22 for the Conservatives, it signaled a gathering white backlash. The extremists want to force all blacks to become citizens of tribal homelands, rather than of South Africa, and would reinstate the...
The Soviets are also wooing Israel. Moscow, which severed relations with Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967, has offered to restore ties if a Middle East peace conference takes place. The catch: at the meeting, Israel would have to deal with the P.L.O., something Jerusalem has refused to...
Archaeologists in Thailand have spent years assembling thousands of stone blocks to restore the Temple of Phnom Rung, a monument of the Khmer dynasty (A.D. 802-1250). A key part of the temple has mysteriously turned up 10,000 miles away at Chicago's Art Institute, and the Thais are...