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...scope of the blacklist may soon widen to include not only athletes who have played in South Africa and those who have visited there for sporting events, but also athletes who play against South African teams on their own soil. Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Floyd Patterson was named simply because he attended a boxing bout held in South Africa as a spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby...
...managed to hold the line against this current and maintain a pro-Alliance course. But if the antimilitaristic mood continues to grow, it will hamper the ability of NATO governments to carry out their December 1979 pledge to deploy 572 U.S.-built cruise and Pershing II missiles on their soil...
They do not remember that they have hired me when I arrive at 120 avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, site of the chic and glamourous International Herald Tribune. "We don't have any internship program"--not a welcome sentence when you are standing on foreign soil, thousands of miles from home, mute (for all practical purposes), and without friends or finances. The second worst sentence possible in this situation: "Oh, you're the typist...
...regime has had to shake hands with the devil, reality, and make some concessions to the army to keep military support. Yet an amazing start has been made. All large (over 1250 acres) farms have been made into cooperatives. The landless sharecroppers have been given freehold title to the soil they work. In fact, the far right tried to slow down the program by killing the American land reform experts sent by U.S. labor unions who were running the show. Moreover, the far right dislikes the presence of American military advisors who inhibit the more reactionary officers...
...weapons might actually help deter a Soviet armored blitz against Western Europe and thus diminish the danger of war. The real problem with the neutron bomb is essentially political: because of internal opposition in a number of European countries to the stationing of new U.S. weapons on their soil, the key NATO allies are likely to continue to resist deployment of the neutron bomb...