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...blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving to capture their final mood-solemnity, or fear, or anger...
...Farmington who make an effort to understand what a candidate represents. Reagan is popular because his ideology is "good old American," the Greek says, with more than a twinkle in his eye. In Farmington, Reagan stands for "the continued stand of the U.S. as an aggressive power and the halt of Communism...
With the Iowa loss, contributions to Kennedy's campaign came to a halt. Of the total $4.6 million raised so far, he has only $200,000 left...
...another possibility was also rising: that the aggression by the men of the Kremlin is causing a global reaction of such force that it may halt or at least squeeze the voracious Soviet bear. Outrage mounted in the U.S., while at the United Nations the U.S.S.R. suffered a humiliating defeat in which it was abandoned by dozens of its Third World friends. By week's end it had become clear that, though the invasion of Afghanistan had stunned the world, the world's reaction had startled the Kremlin. A drive to boycott the Moscow Olympics was gathering momentum, and that...
...Carter Administration, which apparently accepts Waldheim's gloomy forecast, moved last week to bring a resolution calling for economic sanctions against Iran to a Security Council vote. The American proposal calls on U.N. members to halt all exports to Iran, except food and medicine. In addition, it would curb the Iranians' ability to obtain new foreign loans or convert their dollars into other Western currencies...