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Until last week, vultures followed Bob Lutz around the World Championship Tennis circuit. Whenever the professional tour set up housekeeping at one of its preordained oasis, they checked into town shortly thereafter, grim and faintly expectant of Lutz's imminent demise...
...balance of trade is on its way to a huge deficit of more than $4 billion this year-double last year's worrisome gap between exports and imports-in part because of Japan's modern closed-door policy. This grim analysis was made last week by Harald Malmgren, a senior member of a U.S. trade mission that met with officials in Japan to seek a way to increase American exports. The need for some kind of action soon was starkly emphasized by a Commerce Department report that the trade deficit in this year's first half...
...Cairo on his way home from the Soviet Union. His relations with Moscow have become more genial as the Russians have stepped up their cultivation of Mideast allies other than Egypt. The gist of Assad's message from the Russians was: no offensive weapons for Egypt. That was grim news for Sadat, who had been facing growing pressures at home...
...three young Japanese "Red Army" terrorists who shot up Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport two months ago died in the grim massacre that claimed 26 other lives. Ever since, Survivor Kozo Okamoto, 24, has pleaded for the opportunity to join his comrades, either through suicide or a death sentence from the Israeli military court trying him on charges growing out of the bloodbath. Okamoto insisted to the court's three lieutenant colonels that the dead become stars, and that he himself hoped to enter the constellation Orion...
George Wallace, gaunt and subdued after almost eight weeks in the hospital with gunshot wounds, still paralyzed below the waist, made good his determination to get to Miami Beach and see what ideological leverage he could apply with his 373 delegates. It has been for him a grim and courageous convalescence. After appearing at a Mass in Maryland and reading the 23rd Psalm, Wallace flew in an Air Force jet supplied by Richard Nixon to Montgomery, Ala., where, seated in his wheelchair behind a low, bulletproof lectern, he delivered an airport speech, a wan version of his old campaign rousers...