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...Korea were ordered back to their posts, where they went on "increased alert status." A squadron of F-4s (18 to 24 planes) was dispatched from Kadena, Okinawa, to Korea; so was a squadron of F-111s from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho; so was the carrier Midway from its position off Japan. Still, there was no indication whether the U.S. was preparing a retaliatory move or simply beefing up its strength in anticipation of more assaults by the North Koreans. "I'm not ruling anything in or out at all," said Defense Department Spokesman...
...claims that each of its 3,049 Aegean islands has its own continental shelf extending outward until the water reaches a depth of 660 ft. Turkey, which never ratified the convention, claims that the only way to define the border is by the Anatolian Shelf, which extends midway out into the Aegean. The Greeks maintain that their view was endorsed at this year's continuing U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. Says Turkey's President Fahri Koroturk: "The Aegean is an extension of Asia Minor, and we will never allow it to be turned into...
...Dovev, midway along the border, men and women, children and old people, sick and hale, last week trooped to the Israeli gate across a tobacco field green with flowering plants. A clinic had been set up; those seeking medical care were given numbers by armed Israeli soldiers and shown a place to wait. An outhouse and a pipe for drinking water had also been put up near by. "In sha 'allah, let it be like this for the rest of our lives," said a young Maronite farmer at the fence last week...
...from Auburn University. Glance won Friday's heat with the day's fastest time (10:23), and beat Borzov in the semifinals Saturday morning, but the finals were a different matter. Off the blocks first was Trinidad's Crawford, and there he stayed, fighting off Borzov midway, then Quarrie at the wire in 10:06. Borzov and Glance were third and fourth, as one of the Olympics' smallest countries ran off with a big gold...
...know what loneliness is," Powell says of his postexpulsion phase. He graduated from Georgia State University in 1966 and was midway through a Ph.D. in political science at Emory University in 1969 when he signed on as an unpaid helper for Jimmy Carter, then running for Governor. The gofer and the candidate became good friends as Powell chauffeured him to virtually every hamlet in the state. Since he was the only person traveling with Carter, Powell found himself functioning as press secretary and after Carter won stayed on in that...