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Many seniors whose parents are coming to Commencement said they made hotel reservations quite a long time...
While military expenditures have soared, said McNamara, "there are today more than 1 billion human beings in the developing countries whose incomes per head [adjusted for inflation] have risen only about $2 a year: from $130 in 1965 to $150 in 1975. But what is beyond the power of any set of statistics to illustrate is the inhuman degradation the vast majority of these individuals are condemned to ... Malnutrition saps their energy, stunts their bodies and shortens their lives. Illiteracy darkens their minds...
...Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French language rights throughout the country as an essential step in strengthening Quebec's ties to the rest of Canada...
Observers are watching carefully to see whether the advent of a predominantly black government in Salisbury will change the strategy of the two wings of the Patriotic Front, whose guerrillas have been waging war against the Rhodesian regime for the past six years. One leader of the Front, the hulking Joshua Nkomo, who heads the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), was on a private visit to the U.S. He skipped a stopover in Washington, but dropped in at the United Nations and attended an African-American Institute conference in Houston, where he turned his gargantuan appetite loose on a Texas...
...these frustrations are being exploited by Marxists. Leftist groups of various sorts are well organized in the oilfields, in the Abadan refinery and even among the well-paid, rather pampered workers at the port of Kharg Island, whose highly sophisticated pipeline network and oil flow control mechanism make it the most vulnerable element in the Iranian oil system...