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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government blames the guerrillas for every atrocity; the guerrillas blame the Rhodesian army's Selous Scouts, an elite mixed-race tracking unit whose members occasionally masquerade as guerrillas to test villagers' loyalties. Belingwe villagers are convinced, whatever the truth, that government forces last May killed the reserve's only black doctor, who had previously been warned against giving medicine to guerrillas. The government firmly insists that he was murdered by the "ters" (terrorists...
...temperamental. An Israeli researcher believes there may be something to the ancient prejudice. At the Honolulu conference, Psychiatrist Michael Bar, of Israel's Shalvata Psychiatric Center, reported a study showing that redheaded children are three or four times more likely than others to develop "hyperactive syndrome" -whose symptoms include overexcitability, short attention span, quick feelings of frustration and, usually, excessive aggressiveness...
...most celebrated former witness to date is Gerald Martin Zelmanowitz, a Brooklyn-born former stock swindler whose testimony resulted in the 1970 conviction of notorious Mafia Capo Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo. With his family, Zelmanowitz was relocated in San Francisco, where he became Paul Maris and eventually entered the ladies' garment business. The flamboyant Maris, né Zelmanowitz, got control of a 350-employee company but soon became embroiled in messy civil litigation with the firm's New York financial backers...
...deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and all who wanted to enter it. But most other lines, including Eastern, are bitterly opposed. Eastern's Borman believes opening up airline service to all comers would mean "wasteful capacity wars" that would benefit the largest, strongest carriers-like United-which could expand into new routes now denied them...
...some 5,000 boisterous fans waiting for hours at New York City's Kennedy Airport for the triumphant return of their team and their hero. Was it for the first-place Yankees that the crowd had gathered? The football Giants or Jets? No, it was for a team whose name is still strange to many Americans, but one that should become increasingly familiar: the Cosmos, newly crowned champions of the North American Soccer League. And above all it was for their star, Pelé, the man who more than anyone else has, in the space of a single season...