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...Nixon tries especially hard to stay on top of developments in superpower and Mideast relations, as well as domestic economic and energy issues. Nixon still occasionally speaks with unnamed national and international statesmen, the confidante reports, though "they're not coming to him for advise and counsel and that sort of thing. A lot of them are friends of his. They're just trying to maintain some personal contact," Price adds...
...alliance of anti-communist and anti-Somoza forces that could rob Nicaraguans of what may be the most significant opportunity for social advancement in their history. The FSLN has shown clearly that the armed struggle will continue if Somoza is merely replaced by a military junta, or if any sort of political arrangement is worked out with opponents of the regime which does not include the Sandinista representatives of the mass of dispossessed Nicaraguans...
...could come the granting of South African citizenship for those in the homelands and an expanding franchise for blacks within South Africa. Eventually, Ball suggested, as have others, there might be some form of partition?an extension, perhaps, of the homelands policy?with greatly enlarged black states retaining some sort of confederal relationship with Pretoria. Demanding that South Africa move immediately toward one man, one vote, Ball points out, is futile; in the present context, the South Africans could not be induced to accept it, fearing that they would be swamped by a tide of black nationalism...
...corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot" for visiting Russians, Garst continued to welcome them to his farm even during...
...final event of the day, a cheap claiming race on the inner-turf track at New York's Belmont Park. With a mixed bag of nags running on a spongy grass surface, it was not the easiest race for bettors to sort out, and by the time the field of twelve horses paraded to the post, rain was falling steadily. So it was understandable that many fans had started to drift toward the exits. But something happened during the ninth race on Sept. 23 that stopped the exodus and sent horseplayers back to stare at the tote board with...