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...opening up an early lead and gaining the victory with a strong 15:01.31, Hackett provided the excitement with a mid-race battle with Edmonton Keyano's Peter Szmidt. At the 500 mark. Szmidt, the world record-holder or the 400-meter freestyle, had the edge, but Hackett proved tougher, inching up and then moving out when Szmidt began to fade...
...conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship. In the past 15 years, 17 countries (including Canada, India, Norway and Great Britain) have liberalized their abortion laws; in the same period, seven nations (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Iran, Israel and New Zealand) have adopted tougher legislation...
...team continues to lose, it can only get tougher...
...Japanese car companies so far have been resisting all government pressure to hold down exports to the U.S. But Katsuji Kawamata, chairman of Nissan Motor Co., maker of Datsuns, hinted that they might accept some compromise in order to head off even tougher U.S. action. Said he: "We cannot continue to act as if we couldn't care less what is happening over there...
Anyone who has ever worked in the White House knows that no sooner is the newly elected occupant settled in his chair than he is running for reelection. The six-year term would allow the Oval Office to take nasty alternatives. As the issues get tougher, as the nation's leader hunkers down under the daily assault of the press, his opponents and the intransigence of his daily challenges, the six-year term becomes more attractive...