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...style swagger was not really suited to down-home Iowa. Some low blows in his advertising did not help him in a state where the politics are especially clean. (Example: he ran a TV spot that implied that Governor Ray had endorsed him. When Ray objected, Connally had to withdraw...
...attack on Carter's foreign and domestic policies. He hopes that a dramatic, sharply focused address, in contrast to his more rambling efforts on the stump, will revive his fading chances in the New England states. If he fails to win in his native region, he plans to withdraw from the race...
...signaled the importance of India's role in shaping a cohesive regional response to the Afghanistan crisis. In the softest possible language, New Delhi had described Moscow's intervention as unjustified and "expressed the hope," as Foreign Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao put it, that the Soviets would withdraw. Mrs. Gandhi's government, however, was equally jittery about the possible creation of a U.S.-Pakistan-China axis, which could push India into an overly close relationship with the Soviet Union, with which it already has a friendship treaty...
...Soames among Rhodesians. But the lordly Governor of Britain's last African colony has little cause for buoyancy these days. He bears responsibility for running "free and fair" elections to Zimbabwe Rhodesia's new, 100-member House of Assembly; yet many of the parties have threatened to withdraw from the balloting. He also has to hold together a shaky cease-fire amid continuing violence...
...could withdraw your troops from Africa...