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...haul back. They would return again and again and again, around the clock for the next two weeks, with a brief respite on Christmas Day. The Vietnamese Revolution--born four decades earlier in the dreams of a scattered group of exiles, nurtured in the mountains and jungles in the seven-year war against the French, and grown to maturity in the resistance to the Americans--was facing another trial by fire and iron...
...There is a question as to whether the famine is the result of a six-or seven-year drought or a massive movement of the Sahara to the south due to overgrazing," Mayer added. He pointed out that from Roman times through the 12th century Libya had been irrigated and fertile. Poor agricultural practices led to Libya's present aridity, he said...
...sergeant stationed in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and she was 14, the daughter of an Air Force captain. Now, at 28, the former Mrs. Presley, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with its own bar (soft drinks only...
...head of state would be a President elected for a single seven-year term, with almost limitless powers in the areas of defense, foreign affairs and public security. There would be a 200-member Parliament: 180 elected and 20 appointed by the President. Almost certainly, that President would be Papadopoulos himself...
Pompidou's seven-year term of office expires in 1976. Under the constitution he can resign or be removed from office if he is too ill to continue. In such a case, national elections would be held within 35 days. Among the possible successors: Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47, and former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 58. If Pompidou decided to step down, he would almost certainly attempt to hand-pick a successor...