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...Vientiane, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Peking. Flying with him were U.S. hopes for an imminent cease-fire in Laos, for a gradual end to the Cambodia fighting and for new assurances that the settlement in Viet Nam will stick. The sensitive mission may also help define the still-emerging triangular relationship among long-estranged and still uneasy powers: the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and China...
...game itself is deceptively simple. Each player arranges 15 checker-like counters on four of the 24 triangular "points" that line two opposite edges of the rectangular board. The players take turns moving their counters from point to point according to the throw of dice-white going one way, black the other. When a player has collected all of his counters on his "home" points, he can begin to "bear off" (remove his pieces); the first to remove all his pieces wins. He is awarded a single game, a double game ("gammon") or a triple game ("backgammon"), depending upon...
...Crimson, on the basis of its performances to date, is rated the favorite in the 20th running of the triangular meet. The Tigers, however, are strong enough to challenge, and Harvard must avoid any sort of letdown in order to take its 13th win in the series and its tenth out of the last twelve. Yale will probably be an idle host...
...INTERFACE, developed by Boat Builder Ken Mobert of San Rafael, Calif., is played on a Y-shaped board with 108 squares and 18 irregular quadrilaterals. Six of the quadrilaterals -which are located in the triangular zone, or interface, where the three sectors of the board meet-are colored red and called "transit points." As in traditional chess, each player starts out with a regulation army of 16 pieces -red, black or white-which move in the standard way, unless they land on a transit point. Then strange things can happen. A bishop, for example, can transfer from a diagonal...
...status quo in Europe. But the Washington-Peking tie also made a U.S.-Soviet thaw imperative from Moscow's standpoint, which is precisely what Nixon and Kissinger had planned. In a sense, Nixon vaulted over the Western Europeans to establish his goal: improved ties with Russia. From this triangular power play emerged continued improvements in relations and slowly expanding trade with China, and the series of agreements, including a massive trade pact, with Russia. It opened the path toward other negotiations, notably on "Mutual Balanced Force Reductions" in Europe, scheduled to begin...