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...Kevin P. Welsh, assistant Harvard soccer coach, signed a contract Monday night to play for the New England Tea Men, a new professional soccer team...
...Welsh, the first player signed by the team, said yesterday that he will retain his post at Harvard while playing professional soccer...
...across the ocean on a naked raft. Even the most venturesome solitary sailors today - men like Sir Francis Chichester, who circumnavigated the globe in 1966-67 in his 53-ft. boat Gipsy Moth IV - have the advantage of sophisticated hull and sail design. Says Tristan Jones, a small, bearded Welsh sailor who has circumnavigated the globe three times, crossed the Atlantic 18 times under sail, nine times alone: "The boats I sail wouldn't have existed before now. They are fitted with the best technology of our time, from stainless steel to freeze-dried food...
Several weeks ago, when Callaghan visited the U.S., the President had expressed an interest in taking a side trip outside London when he came to England for the economic summit. Carter mentioned Wales, the birthplace of his favorite poet Dylan Thomas. But Callaghan, concerned about possible problems with Welsh nationalists, suggested Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pop. 295,700), a grimy coal town that is rife with unemployment as it attempts to shift to cleaner industries. Besides being the home of Washington's ancestors, Newcastle is a stronghold of the Labor Party (although the Conservatives did surprisingly well there in last...
...European publications-all to be released just before he arrives in London. Earlier he had informed Prime Minister Callaghan that he would like to make an excursion to Poet Dylan Thomas' birthplace in Wales. The request was made without considering the fact that Britain is trying to moderate Welsh nationalist demands. Callaghan suggested a visit instead to the ancestral home of George Washington near the coal town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The Prime Minister felt that taking the President on a tour of the Labor stronghold would be a political coup that would help his hard-pressed party...