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...leading Communist, "but the Christian Democrats said yes to Mr. Fanfani and no to us." Zaccagnini and Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer, after a summit meeting last week, were unable to reach an accommodation. Finally, after two full days of heated wrangling, the Christian Democrats decided to ask for a showdown confidence vote in Parliament this week. That was tantamount to admitting that the only recourse was early elections...
...paid for it. We built it. And we are going to keep it." As President, Reagan vowed, he would say just that to any "tinhorn dictator" in Panama who sought to gain control over the waterway. The Reagan theatrics, designed to win him support in his dead-even showdown with Gerald Ford in the Texas primary on May 1, drew strong applause...
Using yesterday's scores, coach Tim Taylor and Captain McNealy have tentatively decided the line-up for tomorrow's showdown in New Haven. Thompson, Ball, Paxton and Purdy will join Vik, Fitzgibbons and McNealy for the trip...
...action was the Boston Minutemen--New York Cosmos game last June 20 at Boston University's Nickerson Field. It was also the showdown between Pele (hopefully he needs no introduction) and Eusebio, who was second only to Pele when he reigned as the king of soccer. No-one else deserved to be mentioned in the same sentence with them...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, flew to London last week for three days of talks with British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan. Gromyko helped work out a withdrawal of South Africa's remaining 1,000 troops in southern Angola in time to blunt a U.N. Security Council showdown over the matter. Meanwhile, Mozambique President Samora Machel, whose country would of necessity be the staging ground for any Cuban involvement, assured Britain that he has no intention of inviting them in. African leaders stress that they want Rhodesia liberated by Rhodesians...