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...Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...
...Ussuri and Amur rivers at the point where they converge. The Soviets claim that the border between the two countries is formed by the narrow Kazakevicheva Channel, which joins the two rivers about 20 miles south of their actual convergence near the Soviet city of Khabarovsk. In a stiff diplomatic note to Peking, the Russians said that they were "ready as before" to allow Chinese ships to bypass the Kazakevicheva Channel during the summer months, when it becomes too shallow for navigation. But, they added, the Chinese must first recognize "the Soviet Union's sovereign rights and territorial integrity...
Having opened the door to freedom after half a century of stiff repression, the regime is clearly finding it difficult to close that door against a threat of anarchy. The young officers who planned the coup, in apparent idealism and patriotic fervor, are disgusted that Portuguese workers see freedom merely as an opportunity to strike and double their wages. But the military is also frightened by the impossible demands of ultra-leftists, who sneer at even the Communists as representatives of the Establishment...
...really don't know if we're going to win it. I'm not saying we're going to lose, but anything can happen when you have the kind of stiff competition we'll be facing," he said...
...psychiatric therapy. By working hard at her job. By just waiting out the ordeal. (She has not remarried.) How would she do it differently if she had to do it again? She would talk about death more openly to her husband, to her children. She would not try to stiff-upper-lip it through. And she would have couples make financial preparations-by seeing to things like wills, savings and death benefits, which are often neglected until too late. "Money," she writes savagely, "is power. Strength. Life. It is sexual. I care more about money than I do about...