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...also turn back to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields captured during the Six-Day War. Egypt agreed in writing to let Israeli nonmilitary cargoes pass through the Suez Canal. Both sides agreed that the Middle East conflict should not be resolved by force and that neither side should "resort to the threat or use of force or military blockade." That fell short of the formal promise of nonbelligerency that Jerusalem demanded of Cairo, but the statement was the closest thing to a declaration of peaceful intentions toward Israel made by an Arab nation since the 1948 Armistice...
...Last Resort. The nine surviving student victims of the Kent State shooting and the parents of the four youths who were killed on May 4, 1970, had filed a $46 million civil suit against Ohio Governor James Rhodes, former Kent State University President Robert White, Ohio National Guard Commanders Robert Canterbury and Sylvester Del Corso and a number of Guardsmen involved in the firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell...
...could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely not to be dismissed as mere fantasy...
Harvard had at one time the best track facility in New England--the Bubble, a structure supported by air. But when an air blower blew out two years ago, the Bubble collapsed, and Harvard had to resort back to Briggs Cage. Briggs is probably the worst indoor college track in the East if not the universe, and the less said about it the better. A personal inspection should suffice...
...Tours. A less arduous expedition offered by Wien Air Alaska flies vacationers to Katmai and its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an awesome volcanic area where U.S. astronauts trained for moon landings. A three-day outing for $250 combines a stay at Katmai's resort hotel with hikes into a wilderness hundreds of miles from other human habitation. And there are organized dogsled trips: Anchorage's Denali's Dog Tours offers four days from Mount McKinley Park headquarters into Toklat Lake...