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...ideology, not information. But many students seem to appreciate peace promoters' efforts at consumer education, even if they do not always follow the advice. After listening to a member of the War Resisters League, Philip Jee, 17, a senior at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, remained unshaken in his determination to become a Navy pilot. "It made me think," he said of the presentation. "But it didn't make me change my mind...
...country hit 500,000 in February. At home, the strain of the war effort was rubbing harder against the certainties of Pentagon planners, as Americans watched nightly televised images of young men engaged in search-and-destroy missions with a stubbornly invisible enemy. Nonetheless, official American confidence was largely unshaken. The Communist enemy was believed by Lyndon Johnson's White House to be "struggling to stave off military defeat...
...necessarily to overpower a major tournament, as Norman is all too aware. Still, while other golfers with such abominable luck might be smashing their mashies and pulverizing their putters, Norman's confidence remains unshaken. "I expect to do most of my damage between 35 and 45," says he. Perhaps more important, the losses have shown that he can handle his setbacks with style, and though it kills him to lose, he asserts, "You do more good * for yourself by losing than by winning." Norman is also something of a throwback. Golf has become the province of colorless, interchangeable technicians content...
Outwardly unshaken by the failure of Howe's mission, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intended to hold her lonely line against meaningful sanctions at a three-day meeting of leaders of six Commonwealth members (Australia, Canada, India, the Bahamas, Zambia and Zimbabwe). Arguing that sanctions will not work unless the industrial powers join in applying them, she hoped to buy time until at least mid-September, when foreign ministers of the European Community nations complete deliberations on the subject in Luxembourg. If Britain remains out of step on sanctions then, Thatcher's Cabinet seems likely to split sharply...
...news, Planned Parenthood President Faye Wattleton said in New York that Sorrentino's was the first case of an individual being excommunicated "simply because he or she works for Planned Parenthood." While Sorrentino's nine-year stewardship of the state group continues, she insists her religious faith remains unshaken. On "human-rights issues," she told a news conference, "many of us as Catholics consider ourselves in conflict" with the church...