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The key to Humphrey's scenario is a challenge to the California delegation. Under that state's winner-take-all primary rules, the delegation must give all its 271 votes to McGovern, who won the primary with 44% of the vote. Humphrey and others are arguing that this...
The Baath Party's rule has reduced the legendary thousand-and-one nights capital of Haroun-al-Rashid to "a joyless city where laughter is alien and diplomats politely suspend dinner conversations when a waiter hovers within earshot," reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit last week. The...
- For better or for worse, the meeting reaffirmed that there are still only two superpowers, despite all the recent talk of a multipolar world. The Russians seemed bent on showing that Moscow is the joint capital of world power, sharing superpower status equally-and only-with Washington. They wanted to...
There are two basic types of smart bombs-those guided by television and those led by laser beams. TV bombs, like the Navy's 3,000-lb. Walleye (so named for the glassy lens in its snout), can be dropped from an altitude of 30,000 ft., far above...
Different as they are, Brezhnev and Nixon could admire their mutual skill at political maneuver and their long, hard way up to power. Brezhnev's triumph springs from a mixture of perseverance, hard work and calculation -plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class...