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...dust. Soon there was evidence that the ground war was also beginning to go less well than the Iraqis had anticipated. Iraqi ground forces had staked early claims to victory in their advance toward Khorramshahr; along with four other Western correspondents, I went to see how, in fact, the week-old campaign was faring...
...slipped from the platform, but among some Republicans, support is gaining. "Tyne Mary Vance is part of the family's growing feminist movement," proclaimed the former First Lady Betty Ford on her first official visit to her week-old granddaughter. "I hope she follows in her grandfather's footsteps and becomes President, but with any luck, she won't be the first woman to do so." Mama Susan Ford Vance, 23, wants Tyne Mary "to grow up in a world where she can be anything she wants to be." She might even emulate her dad Chuck Vance...
...proposal was offered during the second round of face-to-face talks in a windowless van parked outside the Dominican Republic Embassy, scene of the week-old takeover...
...difficulties, the week-old cease-fire had already accomplished what the white Salisbury government of Ian Smith and the biracial regime of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had spectacularly failed to do: scale down the bloodshed and bring large numbers of guerrillas peacefully out of the bush. Compared with a weekly average of about 200 deaths before the truce took effect, last week's total of twelve was an improvement that boosted the morale of many war-weary Rhodesians. "It's working!" exclaimed a jubilant African shopkeeper near the Mozambique border. "Everybody's happy. I'm even sleeping...
Joel started off her evening by swimming the 100-yd. breaststroke in a team-record time of 1:03:51 to break her own week-old mark by one one-hundredth of a second. She then topped teammate Maura Costin's old team record of 2:44 in the 200-yd. individual medley by 11.19 seconds, and finished with a close win in the 200-yd. breaststroke...