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...period. Instead of the year 2000, they now worry about making it past March. Then, some 22 million French voters will go to the polls to choose among 3,000 candidates for the 490 seats in the French Chamber of Deputies. For the first time since Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic in 1958, there is a real possibility that they will return a leftist majority. That would mean not only an end to 15 years of Gaullist control of the National Assembly but a potentially worrisome constitutional crisis since Pompidou's seven-year presidential term does...
...that time Mintoff was trying to renegotiate a seven-year contract covering support payments for the modest British air and naval force that has remained on Malta since the island was granted sovereignty in 1964. Whitehall was paying $12 million a year; Mintoff demanded $72 million and delivered so many eviction ultimatums that he earned the nickname "Deadline Dom." Britain refused to give in to Mintoff's demands. Instead, Whitehall flew special demolition teams into Malta to dismantle the British bases, and it bundled up wives and children and deserted a post where Englishmen have served since Napoleonic days...
...Raskin and William Henderson of the University of California at San Francisco report in Lancet that sodium nitrite, a preservative mixed into some hot dogs, sausages and cured meats, can cause "hotdog headaches." The pair base their findings on the study of a 58-year-old man with a seven-year history of painful, nonthrobbing headaches whenever he ate frankfurters, bacon, salami or ham. No other food seemed to induce the headaches, but randomly administered doses of sodium nitrite did. The doctors are not sure how sodium nitrite causes the headaches, but have no doubt as to how they...
...William R. ("Big Bill") Durnan, 57, All-Star hockey goalie for the Montreal Canadiens during the '40s; of kidney disease; in Toronto. Generally considered the best goalie of modern times, Durnan got a late professional start with the Canadiens at the age of 29. Six times in his seven-year career he won the Vezina Trophy, awarded to the goalie of the least scored-upon team. He also set a modern record by holding opposition teams scoreless for a period...
...mold his view that the word of God must be accompanied by social action. "How dare I go well fed to talk to hungry, unlearned people about the fact that they must be saved," he asks, "and not roll up my sleeves?" During the 1960s, he served a seven-year stint as field secretary for Africa and the West Indies for the British Methodist Missionary Society, and presently he is director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism...