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...talent to fill almost half of the All-East team. Baylor coach Grant Teaff--named UPI Coach of the Year last week--came two years ago to a school that had won 14 games in seven years, and has clearly produced a miracle for the Baptists, who enter the tilt with an 8-3 record...
...uncharacteristically subdued. Perhaps he was preoccupied with weighty matters involving Moscow and the Middle East. On the other hand, he may only have been a bit apprehensive about seeing India's proud, mercurial Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their last meeting, which coincided with the start of a U.S. "tilt" toward Pakistan during the Bangladesh crisis of 1971, ended in mutual distrust. Mrs. Gandhi has since been known to turn livid at the very mention of Kissinger's name. Prospects for a successful encounter seemed dim after India's National Herald, on the day of Kissinger...
...terms. So it is up to the judiciary. The judge must be a modern legal entrepreneur who can manage the business of a fair trial by persuading jurors to be objective, eliminating those who cannot be and exercising a restraining influence on all extraneous forces that could cause a tilt. Theodore R. Kupferman, Associate , Supreme Court Appellate Division, New York City...
...immediate radical change. By avoiding Moscow bear hugs and pledging to abide by democratic processes, they entice voters who have lived through totalitarian regimes. At the same time, Communists along the southern tier are capitalizing on anti-Americanism - particularly in Greece, where Washington is currently despised for its Turkish tilt over Cyprus. The danger to the U.S. and the Western alli ance in button-down Communism is that it could eventually lead to a weakening of NATO or the elimination of U.S. military bases that underpin the defenses of Western Europe...
...Ford Administration has an opportunity to gain some ground in the Third World. India was singed by Nixon's pro-Pakistani "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh war, but New Delhi dealt sympathetically with his departure nevertheless. Indian Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh went out of his way to say that Nixon's "action in resigning is in the best tradition of democracy...