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...apparent effort to extricate itself from the international hot seat, the Kremlin launched a diplomatic campaign that contained hints of compromise. President Leonid Brezhnev, in a policy speech before a Kremlin political gathering, said Soviet troops could be withdrawn from Afghanistan if the U.S. and other offending countries offered "guarantees" that all "external aggression" would be halted.* An even more conciliatory overture appeared to come from a meeting between Brezhnev and Occidental Petroleum Corp. Chairman Armand Hammer...
PHILADELPHIA--Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) has withdrawn as graduation speaker this year at the University of Pennsylvania...
Nkomo aides also complained of heavy intimidation-from both the Mugabe forces and some 20,000 armed "auxiliaries" loyal to Muzorewa. Nor was Mugabe himself exempt from intimidation: as the election neared, he had all but withdrawn from active campaigning following a grenade attack on his new suburban Salisbury home and a remote-controlled land-mine explosion that just missed...
...President Johnson's open housing bill to get through the Rules Committee. But on the economy, the domestic policy area over which a president has most direct control, Anderson remains a conservative, a man who believes a balanced budget is the primary goal of an economic policy. He has withdrawn his support of Kemp-Roth; even his original support of such an irresponsible and dangerous a proposal, though, reveals the heart of a conservative. Anderson's much touted trade-off of a 50-cent-per gallon tax for a 50-per-cent cut in Social Security taxes is an admirable...
make him the darling of the European sporting press. To the chagrin of journalists, however, he is taciturn, bordering on withdrawn. "Sometimes the whole business is too much for me," he admits. "Only skiing calms...