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...displays of ruthlessness have sharply reduced the options available to his government. White Rhodesians' insistence on racial segregation and Smith's vacillation and calculatedly divisive tactics in dealing with the ANC have led directly to the increasingly violent challenge to continued minority rule in Rhodesia. Smith's attempts to withstand the economic, military and diplomatic pressure to capitulate have made "consequences too ghastly to contemplate" all the more probable. The sooner Smith capitulates the more likely that the black government following him will be moderate and the more likely that southern Africa will be free from superpower intervention and broader...
...sizeable lead was enough to withstand the late comeback charge by the Crusaders, who then scored 13 unanswered points to pull within nine. But State stretched the lead to 17 with five minutes remaining to ice the game...
...basketball program has enough going against it already without having to withstand the burden of a coach who is incommunicado with his players. Any team which has to call the IAB its home and play a schedule which calls for back-to-back contests in Cambridge over both vacation and intersession weekends is at a big enough disadvantage as it is. Then you throw in the history of Harvard basketball (its first Ivy title is still forthcoming) and the (lack of) fan support which the team receives, and you realize that if the athletic program has an achilles heel...
...first round (the even-numbered matches) was at first a display forum for the Havens family. While Peter was having little trouble in gaining a 3-0 victory at number four, John, in the second position and the adjacent court, had to withstand a furious comeback by Penn's Glen Koach before winning...
...best; but he still holds more top posts than any other official in China-First Vice Premier of the government, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party and Chief of Staff of the Army. It is possible that Teng and the rehabilitated bureaucrats now under attack have the strength to withstand any radical effort to oust them from their positions. A majority of China's powerful regional military commanders are believed to have good relations with Teng. Sinologists were betting that the army would back him and the moderates if it came to a showdown. Moreover, previous leftist campaigns during...