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...Games, thinks the U.S. should take more immediate action. Said he: "Why not bar the Soviet Union from coming here for the Winter Games?" Said Bill Toomey, 41, who won a gold medal in the decathlon in the 1968 Games: "We would be naive to place track and field ahead of world events...
...case, the Senator's actions that night are so odd, by his own description, that Kennedy himself has called them "irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable." Thus they offer a fertile field for investigative reporters, and more attempted exposés may be on the way. Nicholas Horrock and a team of fellow New York Timesmen are reported to be poking anew into the tragedy. Ladislas Farago, a writer on military and espionage subjects, is said to be preparing a long book about Chappaquiddick...
...three of these groups have had trouble supplying the rebels in the field, who send back tortuously written pleas for help signed with dozens of thumbprints. One of the saddest realities about the battle is the insurgents' inability to cope with equipment. Although rebel groups have captured Soviet-built tanks, howitzers and even some helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according...
...visit to Washington two weeks ago, Pakistan's senior foreign affairs adviser, Agha Shahi, asked the U.S. for antitank missiles, air defense missiles, combat tanks, field artillery for its ground forces and transport aircraft for its air force. This new equipment is intended to supplement the 60 French Mirage III and Mirage 5 fighters, the 700 Chinese T-59 tanks and the assorted British, Soviet, Swedish and Argentine weapons. Islamabad purchased them-in large part with Saudi Arabian money-after Washington began limiting arms aid to Pakistan in 1965 because American weapons had been used by both sides...
Most of the people who volunteer for Place are young professionals involved in a related field, or working people who just want to help out a little in their extra time, or college students interested in psychology or altruism. While Place has put up posters in subway stations and listed its services in local newspapers, word-of-mouth throughout the last decade has done most to spread the news about Project Place: that it is a good way to help people in need and to learn to counsel effectively. My roommate heard about it from an old roommate...