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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topics were probed exhaustively by various teams of reporters. Unfortunately, there were no tape recorders whirring in the Kennedy car when it went off Dike Bridge, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The Johnson wealth, stemming mostly from a highly profitable Austin radio and TV station whose stock was held in Lady Bird's name, proved impossible to trace fully. The reporting on Teddy was far from protective; opinion polls show most Americans do not believe his story-and his chance of becoming President has been severely damaged. As for L.B.J., he was forced to forgo...
...plan, whose broad outline had previously been leaked to the press, calls for transition from white to black majority rule during 1978, with a British administrator supervising elections in which adults of all races would have the right to vote. During this period, both the Rhodesian army and the guerrilla armies would be replaced by a U.N. military force, and eventually by a new army for independent Zimbabwe, the African name for Rhodesia. The U.S., Britain and other nations would provide a development fund of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to help revive the country's battered economy...
...grim alternative, in the British view, would be to let Rhodesia drift toward military dictatorship under a divided guerrilla army. Smith's own plan is wishful thinking, they believe, because it seeks to preserve white power with a semblance of black participation but excludes the radical factions whose guerrilla armies have brought Rhodesia to the point of crisis...
...fact is that colorful characters-almost unbearable in the flesh -are colorful only in retrospect." For ten years now the productive Theroux has been transforming the unbearable flesh encountered during his wide travels into pleasurable pages. His eight novels include Girls at Play, Jungle Lovers and Saint Jack, whose settings and atmospheres were drawn from the author's years as a Peace Corpsman in Africa and a teacher in Malaysia...
...were re-enacting their breed's tasks of another century. Newfoundland fishermen used the dogs to gather nets spread in rich offshore fishing grounds. With a double coat similar to an otter's, the dogs withstood long exposure in the icy waters. Newfs are also strong swimmers whose webbed front paws arc out in a powerful breast stroke: no ministroke dog paddle for these canines. In the 19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented...