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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman Jim Dales carded an 82 followed by a three over par 74 in the afternoon to pace the linksmen and place third overall in the tourney. "Everyone had one bad round which blew it for us," said Dales in summary...
Facing widespread disorders and opposition demands for his resignation, Bhutto clamped martial law on Karachi, Hyderabad and Lahore, three of Pakistan's largest cities. A round-the-clock curfew was in effect there and in Lyallpur and troops had orders to shoot to kill all violators. The government's get-tough tactics seemed only to infuriate its opponents-and trouble its supporters...
Nibbling Away. Taking a few prisoners does not quite mean winning a war. Nonetheless, the Zaïrian strongman had good reason to feel buoyant last week. Bolstered by 1,500 crack Moroccan troops, le Guide's forces appeared at last to have won a round in a murky conflict that some Africans have dubbed "the Termite War." Neither side seemed able to do any more than nibble away at the other. But last week government troops not only halted the advance of the ragtag invasion army toward Kolwezi, the center of Zaïre's copper-mining...
...problem there has been how to arrange a transition to majority rule by the 6.2 million blacks in a way that is acceptable to the 270,000 whites. Prime Minister Ian Smith and his party, the Rhodesian Front, have accepted the principle of majority rule, but a first round of settlement talks in Geneva foundered last January over the makeup of an interim government for the breakaway colony...
...50th birthday present to himself and "to give something back to my music," Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich is giving a dozen free concerts round the world. But not at home in the U.S.S.R., which he left in 1974 on a two-year visa and to which he does not plan to return until he is guaranteed full artistic freedom. One invitation he accepted was to play with the student orchestra at Brown, in honor of the inauguration of the university's new president, Howard Swearer. So well subscribed was the event that Rostropovich found himself playing the Saint...