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...Lisbon will have to keep its 25,000 troops in Angola until independence in order to avoid a civil war that could threaten the safety of the 400,000 Portuguese living there. At week's end there were reports from South Africa that Portugal would begin a massive two-month airlift to rescue the white settlers. This, however, would not end the problems the settlers could pose for the triumvirate. Relocated in Portugal, they would probably make up an embittered and impoverished bloc that would blame the regime for not doing more to protect Portuguese interests in Africa...
...Parliament fanned out across the U.S. last April, appearing on local television programs, speaking to businessmen's groups, Governors and mayors. Last week, as Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin was stating the Israeli case in meetings at the White House, a team of six prominent Saudi Arabians completed a two-month swing through such cities as Cedar Rapids, St. Paul, Memphis and Denver. Lebanese Journalist and Spokesman Clovis Maksoud is in the midst of a four-month speaking mission from New York to Texas to California as special envoy of the 20-nation Arab League and chief Arab propagandist...
Politically, the most significant side effect of the referendum was the way it has shaken up the traditional alignment of British party politics. Throughout the two-month campaign, Wilson was virtually isolated from the power base that supported him through twelve years as party chief. Most of the major trade-union leaders, the party's national executive committee and more than half of the Labor M.P.s publicly opposed the Prune Minister on the issue. Wilson and such fellow Labor pro-Europeans as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Education Minister Reginald Prentice were forced into an informal coalition with Conservative...
Financial Vice President Hale Champion said yesterday the library construction cost will run only slightly over its budget--"maybe $30,000 over" an $8-million budget--despite rampant inflation and a two-month ironworker strike...
...popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. On trial are Ringleader Andreas Baader, 32, an art school dropout; Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist; Gudrun Ensslin, 34, a former teacher; and Jan-Carl Raspe, 30, sociologist. A fifth defendant, Holger Meins, died in prison last November after a two-month hunger strike. All are middle-class revolutionaries who emerged from the 1968 student rebellions in Germany determined to destroy "the System." In the two years from the founding of the Baader-Meinhof gang in 1970 to their arrest in June 1972, they roamed the country stealing cars, robbing banks...