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LMOST two weeks ago, President Nixon strode in front of a national television audience, and with a finesse that oddly resembled the State Department's early-1950's cold war ideologues, pointed to a map of Indochina and told the American public that U.S. troops in South Vietnam were surging across the Cambodian border...
Juniors Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler sealed the Crimson's third dual triumph when they pulled away from teammate Mike Koerner and Army's Steve Fee on the seventh lap of the two mile, and strode home in identical times...
...SALT) between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Austrian Foreign Minister Kurt Waldheim got things rolling. At the main doorway of Vienna's sumptuous Belvedere Palace, he grasped the arms of the two chief negotiators, Gerard C. Smith of the U.S. and Russia's Vladimir Semyonov, and strode into the massive red and brown Marmorsaal (marble hall). As Waldheim noted in his welcoming speech, it was in the same hall, 15 years ago, that the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union signed the Austrian State Treaty, ending ten years of military occupation and launching the nation...
With those words, Philosopher Roger Garaudy strode defiantly from the platform of the French Communist Party's 19th Congress in Nanterre. Not one of the 960 delegates applauded. They did not expel him from the party, but when the congress ended last week Garaudy was no longer a member of either the Politburo or the Central Committee, on which he had served for 14 and 24 years, respectively. For his outspoken criticism of the Czechoslovak invasion and other Soviet ventures, France's Communists had in effect demoted one of their most distinguished leaders to the rank and file...
Suddenly, B-wen! Champion of the Wise Teachers, strode onto the stony front Porch of the Citadel, protected by a gleaming Suit of Armor. Blazing in large gold Letters from the great Shield slung across his shoulders was the Motto: "Self Interest is Best for the Common Interest in a Free Economy...