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...Shrewd Action...
...President has gone unchecked in his authoritarian practice of foreign war policy," said state represenfative H. James Shea (D.-Newton), author of the recent bill challenging the constitutionality of the war. "The war will end when we take shrewd, aggressive action against it on all jevels of government...
Getting to that area will be far more hazardous than earlier moon landings, but the mission planners have adopted a shrewd fuel-conserving stratagem that should reduce some of the danger. On previous missions, the lunar lander separated from the mother ship while the two were circling the moon at an altitude of 69 miles. But Apollo 13's command vehicle, Odyssey, will be sent into a more elliptical lunar orbit that will drop it to a height of only nine miles before Aquarius is released. As a result, the lunar lander will use less fuel in its final...
...Shrewd Politics. Though more than 50 heads of state were invited, only a few, including Laos' King Savang Vat-thana made it in person. Despite efforts by U.S. Ambassador Carol Laise to snare Tricia Nixon, Ohio Senator William Saxbe was the U.S. representative...
...there will be other splashy weddings. Prince Birendra has two younger brothers, both of whom are expected to be betrothed to Princess Aishwarya's two younger sisters. The pairings make shrewd political sense. As 49-year-old King Mahendra figures it, with all of his children marrying into the same family, there is no chance of ambitious in-laws from another clan waging a struggle over the succession...