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...Afghanistan, where settling old political scores through the barrel of a gun is practically a tradition, the coup was relatively tidy. The rebels struck just after the Daoud regime had sealed the country's borders to tighten security before a meeting of foreign ministers of 25 non-aligned countries that was due to begin in Kabul late this week. Though some 200 people had died in five hours of fighting in the capital, by week's end the new rulers appeared to be consolidating their power. Their first priority seemed to be to explain to Afghanistan...
...Somali threat also prompted Haile Selassie's Ethiopian government to tighten its control over the self-proclaimed separatists in Eritrea--the half-Moslem, half-Christian province that is Ethiopia's only outlet to the Red Sea. With the U.S. refusal to supply arms to them in 1963, the Somalis accepted Soviet MIG's, artillery weapons and armed personnel carriers in exchange for Soviet rights to the port of Berbera. This led Kenya and Ethiopia--already friendly to the U.S.--to ask for a step up of arms shipments to them. The U.S. subsequently supplied both with obsolete Pentagon reject weapons...
Coming off the fine middle set, Goolagong was working masterfully from the back line, but Evert bounced right back to tighten up the third...
Roth's aide also says that higher-cost schools like Harvard that depend heavily on their endowments are also concerned that legislators may decide to tighten up tax laws concerning deductions for charitable contributions if a tax credit bill is passed, thereby discouraging gifts to universities...
...Conrad Wright '37, professor of American Church History, and secretary of the Divinity faculty, says there is "no question" that the faculty will tighten up its requirements for the Master of Divinity program, adding that he is not sure of the direction that the tightening up will take. Wright says that the area of quantitative skills in the Masters program hasn't really been discussed yet by the faculty, and adds that the area is something that Stendahl is especially interested...