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...City last week, yet another maneuver in the cause of restraint, was designed to ease fears of American military intervention in the Caribbean, and to try to get Mexico to help ease the crises in Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Secretary is convinced that nonaligned countries are ready to tilt our way, despite all the surface squabbles and the complaints about U.S. leadership or lack of it. The desires for freedom, for enough food and for economic opportunity run stronger than ideology at every latitude. Soviet military might has cast its pall across the globe. It is the season...
...recent full-tilt scrimmage, Ferry went 13-for-18 from the floor, and, as McLaughlin says, "he's a very smart player. He's a good open shooter but he also takes the ball to the basket...
...extremists, under Benn's leadership, that had rapidly gained momentum since the party was turned out of power in May 1979. The Bennites want Britain to scrap its nuclear arms, pull out of NATO and nationalize banks and insurance companies. In February, rebelling against the leftward tilt of the party, some of Labor's top leaders bolted to form the Social Democratic Party, which has gained in popularity so rapidly that it has topped both the Labor and Tory parties in recent polls...
Ambassador to the U.N. under Jimmy Carter and a former member of the contact group: "We are in danger of being on the wrong and losing side, as we were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...
There are some 40 air parks around the U.S., most of them in California and in the ideally flat farm country around Chicago. But they have also sprung up in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, New York and even New Hampshire. All are operating at full tilt despite the ongoing air controllers' strike. Nineteen-year-old Cameron Airpark, 30 miles east of Sacramento, is an aeronautical paradise of clear skies and steady climate, with little fog or pollution. It consists of a 4,000-ft. paved runway surrounded by 120 half-acre lots that border on 100-ft.-wide, four-lane...