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...rebuke of detente with the Soviet Union. One large question for the Ford campaign now is to what extent the Reagan forces are satisfied and will actively work for the ticket. William Rusher, publisher of the National Review and an ideological force behind the idea of a third-party breakaway, admitted last week at the Kansas City convention: "I don't think we're going to find many bolters in this hall...
Three meetings have taken place between Israeli officers and representatives of Ahmed Khatib, leader of breakaway Moslem units of the Lebanese army that are generally friendly to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The meetings-the most recent was two weeks ago-are low key and mainly concerned with such mundane problems as what to do about stray flocks of sheep. But Israel's underlying message is clear. As long as Khatib's men do not help P.L.O. terrorists return to the border, the Lebanese troops will be safe from Israeli attack. With Khatib's tacit permission, Israeli combat...
...faceless, unpopular military junta in Addis Ababa known as "the Dergue" (literally, the shadow) last week launched an all-out campaign to end the 14-year-old civil war in Ethiopia 's breakaway northern province of Eritrea. Following an appeal by Ethiopia's strongman, Brigadier General Teferi Benti, to "crush the reactionary forces," government sources claimed that tens of thousands of peasant volunteers were marching toward the Eritrean border, reportedly armed with such crude weapons as spears and ancient muzzle-loaders. But it seemed doubtful whether the government would be any more successful in putting down the rebellion...
...meet the growing guerrilla threat from black nationalists operating from across the Mozambique border, the Smith government has implemented domestic press censorship, announced the biggest military mobilization since the breakaway from Britain in 1965, and begun talking of an "offensive" strategy that suggests the possibility not only of civil war at home but also of air strikes against Mozambique. Said Lieut. General Peter Walls, Smith's army commander: "We are switching from contain-and-hold to search-and-destroy, and adopting hot pursuit when necessary." It was the Rhodesian bombing of a Mozambique village in February that...
Campaign 1976 gyrated wildly. The breakaway surge of Jimmy Carter had transformed the crowded Democratic race into what looked to be a one-man romp the rest of the way. Then an astonishing string of four straight primary victories suddenly revived the near hopeless candidacy of Ronald Reagan, throwing the fight for the Republican nomination into a bruising, free-swinging rumble...