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Even as the President felt hampered in his authority to conduct foreign policy, he confronted a series of new challenges last week. In Ethiopia, government forces, backed by Cuban troops, opened an offensive against secessionists in Eritrea. In pro-U.S. Zaïre, leftist rebels based in Angola stormed into the copper-rich province of Shaba. At breakfast with congressional leaders, Carter fumed specifically about his "frustration at having his hands tied" by the 1975 law restricting U.S. intervention in Angola...
...main threat to U.S. sea lanes would come from the Soviet submarine fleet, which is 25% larger than World War II's Nazi U-boat force. To combat the Soviet subs, the U.S. has devised a complicated strategy involving...
...South Carolina's ex-U.S. Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett saw the future and found it tolerable. By the year 2000, he prophesied, the South would have "established an empire and wrought out a civilization that has never been equaled or surpassed−a civilization teeming with orators, poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians equal to those of Greece and Rome." Five years later the Confederacy was dead. The only thing the South never lost was its capacity to provoke intoxicated visions and literary hyperbole...
Duke Ellington Music Festival--U Mass's Alumni Stadium, Featuring: Duke Ellington orchestra, Patti Labelle, McCoy Tyner, others. $7. Gates open...
...whites. In both subtle and direct ways, the struggle against America's role in apartheid involves a broad range of important issues, from racism in America, to the future of capitalism. But these related issues are clearly not what united the marchers on Thursday night, or the U-Hall protesters Friday. Many of these participants still refuse to address the broad economic question South Africa raises; others, even now, fail to recognize the connection between American corporate racism abroad and racism in America...