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...sharpest point of British insistence was that any cease-fire be linked to a guaranteed plan for the withdrawal of Argentine troops. The alternative, Thatcher told the Commons, would play into Argentine hands. "It would be too easy to say 'no military activities during negotiations,' " she said in reply to a question from Opposition Leader Foot. "We should then be hamstrung. The people on the islands would still be under the heel of the invader, while Argentina increased its activities on the mainland, with supplies and reserves, to attack us at their will...
Last week the U.S. synthetic-fuels program suffered its sharpest blow, one that could prove to be a major setback for large-scale attempts to develop energy alternatives to conventionally obtained oil. Exxon, the world's largest energy company, and the Tosco Corp. pulled out of their multibillion-dollar Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado, effectively abandoning the most ambitious U.S. synthetic-fuel project...
Sands dropped two tough sets, 6-4, 6-4, to the fourth best racquetman in the United States. Marcel Freeman, Sands stunned Freeman with a victory in Harvard's loss to the Bruns over Spring break, but this time around, according to Fish, Freeman was his "sharpest, and he relentlessly attacked Howard Still, "Fish added, "Howard stretched...
...March figure, which showed prices declining at an annual rate of 3.3%, was the first such drop since August 1965, and the sharpest rate of decline since 1953. Skidding gasoline prices, which little more than a year ago were marching briskly upward, led the decline. They dropped 4%, one of the steepest slips ever recorded for a one-month period. As of last week, a gallon of gasoline was selling, on average, for $1.18, the lowest level since January...
...party conventions as festive tributes to their achievements, real or imagined. Not Helmut Schmidt. This week, as 400 delegates from West Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) meet in a concrete, saucer-shaped hall built for the 1972 Munich Olympics, the West German Chancellor faces the sharpest criticism and the most divisive party battle of his eight-year tenure. So important is the confrontation that Schmidt has threatened to resign if the S.P.D. does not support his policy on nuclear defense. Though it appears unlikely that he will have to do so, the five-day debate may further...