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Next month some 40 million Italians will vote in regional elections that, with considerable help from Fanfani, have taken on the coloration and dimensions of a full-scale political confrontation. At stake are nearly 1,000 council seats in 15 of Italy's 20 semi-autonomous regional governments. In polls taken last month, the Communists' showing improved by 2% or 3% over that in the last national election in 1972, which would give them an impressive nationwide total of 30%; the same polls forecast that the Christian Democrats would lose 3%, dropping to an overall 35%. But there...
...were jeeps, carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted at the mud and sand and at Portugal's semi-feudal dictatorship which was wasting them there in a futile holding action. They overthrew that government in 1974. But although the new government was willing and even anxious to give Angola up, the three factions of the Angolan guerilla movement still hadn't formed a coalition which could take...
...adventure and a challenge for them," she says, even though some of the technique with which they realize her structure isn't dance-academy perfect. The interaction between her, the "outside people"-who are frequently semi-professional dancers-and the Harvard undergraduates of the group cannot reasonably be expected to produce technical perfection. The production is a function of three different worlds and Mallardi sees it as being educational for all three as much as it is an ambitious theatrical production...
Mansfield suggests that action should come in the form of an enforced "grade quota, or semi-curve," similar to the one he and Michael Walzer, professor of Government, have used in "promoting some uniformity between sections" in Government...
Boston, playing on their home-court and heavily favored over the Rockets in the best-of-seven Eastern Division semi-final series, led 63-52 at the half and then swept Houston off the court in the final two periods...