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...This meet is not well run at all," Hays said after the first day of competition finally ended late last night. False starts in almost every heat, a breakdown in the timing mechanism, and poor officiating delayed the progress of the meet and aggravated all of the coachers. "We were all pretty patient," Hays said, "but if this continues...
While the Soviet military challenge has to be met with better military deterrence, the broader, longer-range Western response must be political as well. Soviet expansion has been made possible by an increased military capacity, but it is also the result of a breakdown in the relationship known as détente. As a political slogan, détente is discredited-probably forever. One problem was that it fostered unrealistic expectations, even euphoria, about the possibilities for Soviet-American friendship. But as a concept, détente has indisputable validity. The word means nothing more controversial than the reduction...
Sophomore butterfly ace Kathleen McCloskey remained undefeated in the gut-wrenching 200-yard butterfly, out-touching Princeton's Donna Goldbloom by over a second with a 2:09.1. McCloskey also tied for first place in the 50-yard fly but due to a timing system breakdown was arbitrarily awarded second-place by Princeton judges...
Dominguez, a consultant to both the U.S. and Cuban governments, called the breakdown in negotiations frustrating, since invitations such as the CFIA's "aren't costing the Cuban government anything." Other Cuban scholars invited by the CFIA, including several officials in the Cuban Foreign Ministry, have apparently wanted to accept the fellowships, since "it's much easier to study the U.S. here than long-distance," he added...