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Sadly, there is very little likelihood that Allah will be any more merciful next year than he has been throughout 1973. Mohammed Ibrahim may be alive, but starvation and disease on the three-month trek from drought-ravaged Mali to Niger cost him all his cattle and camels and a third of his family. Now he is destitute, living in a stark hut made oi hides The Niger Red Cross manages to provide him with 150 grams of food per day, which, according to U.N. officials, can only sustain life for a short time...
...geological formation known as the Witwatersrand gold field in South Africa. The possibility of a hit also fascinated Jules Verne. In his 1877 story Hector Servadac, the earth is smashed to bits by a comet, and the protagonists drift off into space on one of the fragments. Statistically, the likelihood of a comet colliding with the earth is extremely remote; scientists calculate that such a collision will occur no more than once every 200 million years...
That issue out of the way, the committee voted to recommend confirmation by a vote of 29 to 8, setting up the likelihood that Ford would be approved by the House this week as the nation's 40th Vice President...
...obvious American parallel, that of General MacArthur, who was fired by Truman for insubordination and returned home to a hero's welcome. MacArthur, however, then faded into obscurity. Sharon may well be fired and return to Israel a hero. But rather than fade into obscurity, he will in all likelihood make himself one of the most significant opposition voices in the nation...
Trudeau, 53, must now face a long Canadian winter. There is little likelihood that Conservative Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield, who lost so narrowly last time, will give him a breather. The trip to China will not solve Trudeau's troubles at home. Inflation (especially in food prices)-along with unemployment and fractious Quebec-provides Stanfield with missiles to try to pierce Trudeau's new image...