Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa had already agreed to Namibian independence by Dec. 31,1978, under a multiracial government. Vorster still refused to deal directly with the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's main liberation (and guerrilla) movement. But he hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward to Dec. 31,1977. In return, Vorster would insist that a SWAPO-dominated government guarantee the safety and rights...
...Colts. Last season the Colts were football's Cinderella, bouncing from two wins and twelve losses in 1974 to the championship of the American Football Conference's Eastern Division and a spot in the 1975 playoffs. They were beaten by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first playoff round, but this year the Colts hope to stay at the dance past midnight. With a solid defense and an offense led by Quarterback Bert Jones-considered by many to be the best young passer in the pro ranks-they might well succeed...
...National Football League is outraged at the halfback-horse equation implied in the Delaware plan, and worries that legalized gambling might spread and lead to scandal. The league went to federal court to stop the pool, but lost the first round of its suit. The N.F.L.'s concern about fixes is real and its policing of the game is aggressive. A full-time staff of investigators monitors coaches and players, and the league is quick to act when it scents potential trouble; witness the celebrated suspension of Paul Hornung for wagering on games and the order that Joe Namath...
...that point, Bharati suspects, "some pattern of legal action will ensue." Police will round up saints as well as bums; the lotus may become an illegal position. Radical as he is, the author feels some sympathy for the law-and-order position. Mysticism is a good thing, in his opinion, for those who can handle it, but he fears that mass inflation of the transcendental could bring on an epidemic of "cosmic insanity." He wisely advises the unwary neophyte to look carefully before he leaps into the abyss of being...
...Mackey, once one of the team's great running backs, now lives in a trailer with his pregnant wife and two kids. His days of glory behind him, he sells whisky to the locals while his daddy trains fighting dogs and his mad sister watches TV round the clock. It is a world in which boredom and brutality are kinds of celebration, where "men were maimed without malice, sometimes-often even-in friendship...