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...Union, troubled by ethnic unrest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians...
...four Ivy schools should dominate the scoring in most of the races but a number of the estimated 34 teams entered, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Cornell, and Navy, will score enough points to affect the final outcome to a greater or lesser degree...
Allegheny Airlines sounds like the name of a puddle-hopping carrier that serves a mountain range in Pennsylvania. But to the heads of the nation's major trunk lines, Allegheny appears as a fire-breathing imperialist swallowing up lesser lines and challenging the giants for airspace. Though it is still classed as a regional carrier, Allegheny in the past five years has grown to become the sixth largest airline in the U.S. in passenger traffic. Its revenues have nearly quadrupled to $265 million, and profits have risen to $6,000,000 last year from a loss...
...moved irresistably into Vietnam, he also saw the high quality officers left over from World War II retire, replaced by lesser men that had brought up the rear. Television made Vietnam the living room war, and Westmoreland and Abrams became the prop and make-up men. With a unique perspective on the Army's ills, Herbert was still sure they could be cured from within, simply by going by the book. For three tours in Indochina, he did exactly that...
...future, "Sesame Street" will concentrate more on "social-emotional development," Lesser said...