Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first election was a true bungle--people were disorganized and just didn't think. This time, though, there was a lot of maneuvering, and then this proxy thing," Winthrop said yesterday...
...there," he says. "He's going to hurt his hand. He's cold, and he's rubbing them between every play. That means he can't coordinate them well, and he'll end up jamming a finger or getting stepped on." True to prediction, Defensive Back Alan Johnson's right hand is raked by a cleat. At halftime, Verbruggen has to treat him for a bruise and deep scrape...
...comes word that should really bug the True Believers. In a report in the journal Applied Optics, two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists offer an earthly explanation not only for the Utah UFOS but possibly for many others as well. Reading Salisbury's book, Entomologist Philip S. Callahan and his associate, R.W. Mankin, were struck by the similarity between the movements of the UFOS and the actions of insect swarms. Their conclusion, after some painstaking research: the Utah objects were probably moths known as spruce budworms, illuminated by a common atmospheric phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire...
...deal with South Africa, as an American. The similarities are clear, but so is the oppression. Even in the most racist areas of the States, there are still legal ways to fight discrimination; in South Africa, there are no such means. Apartheid is changing under outside pressure, it is true: the farmer who killed his maid with a sjambok might get a few years in jail now, instead of merely a fine. But it is not changing fast enough, and both blacks and whites are getting ready for the confrontation. As Zimbabwe and Namibia are going, so will South Africa...
...they are probably wrong. Smith and the white minority of 240,000 who rule over Rhodesia--and over the nearly six million Africans who reside within its boundaries--have beaten the odds for 13 years, and they are doing their darndest to stay in power. True, Rhodesia is closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while...