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...mounting carnage served only to strengthen Somoza's determination to hang onto the presidency. "I have no reason to abandon my constitutional post," he declared from his bunker last week. The uprising, Somoza maintained, "was the work of Cuba and Panama," which he claimed had armed and trained the guerrillas. To prove the point, Somoza brandished the identification papers of three Panamanians, including a former Deputy Minister of Health, who was said to have been slain last week by national guardsmen near the Costa Rican border...
Youth. A mountain man, 22 years old, fresh-faced and heartbreakingly handsome in his fringed buckskins, says goodbye to the girl he shyly loves. He speaks awkwardly, in tones still untutored by the professionalism that was to come, of the wild land that he must abandon her for, to explore along The Big Trail...
...Israeli soldiers, in fact, had far more trouble dealing with their fellow citizens than with the Egyptians. Farmers from the settlement of Neot Sinai, two miles east of El Arish, refused last week to abandon a ten-acre vegetable patch that was part of the land being returned to Egypt. Several hundred militant Israeli nationalists drove into the Sinai to support the angry settlers. When Defense Minister Ezer Weizman visited the community in an effort to persuade the farmers to leave, he was spat upon and called a "traitor" and an "Egyptian agent." After Cairo turned down a last-minute...
...flare-up really began a month ago, when Carter first decided to decontrol oil prices. Kennedy for his part had urged the Administration not to abandon the threat of continued controls until a windfall tax was assured. But Carter had tried that approach last year and been clobbered by the Congress. This time the President figured to decontrol first and throw the responsibility for the tax onto Congress...
...little study, they ought to have a book burning. The single six-year term is an idea that appeals to troubled politicians-Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Connally. Most of them never muttered it until they got into some difficulty. Carter may be in political peril, but he need not abandon the Constitution...