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Orders with Kick. To reach Aba, federal forces had to cross the swift cur rents of the Imo River, which the Bi-afrans had established as the major defense line protecting Aba by the simple expedient of blowing up the main bridges. They had left just one bridge intact-at Awaza-and it was heavily mined. When federal marine comman dos stepped onto the bridge, it, too, exploded and vanished. The blast, however, failed to stop federal soldiers from running across the catwalk on top of a natural-gas pipeline that spanned the river parallel to the bridge...
Died. Harry H. S. Phillips Jr., 67, first publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, founded by Time Inc. in 1954, who saw the magazine off to a swift start (250,000 subscriptions even before the name was announced) and helped it grow toward vast success (present circulation: 1,310,950) before he moved on to a corporate staff position in 1959; after a long illness; in Mount Kisco...
...overcome the strike setbacks, Premier Couve de Murville has turned to "the only policy imaginable" - swift economic expansion. In keeping with that goal, the French Cabinet last week unveiled a 1969 budget that calls for an 11% increase in government spending, to $30 billion. While creating a deficit of about $2.5 billion, such outlays are expected to help boost French industrial production by 7% next year, enabling the French economy to achieve a substantial 5½% to 6% growth...
...Millennium. At any rate, the 29th G.O.P. Convention, looking up at its nominee, was not in a mood for character analysis. After a conclave made dull by the swift rout of Nixon's foes and enlivened only briefly by a spat over the vice-presidential nomination, it was time for exultation. One thing that his detractors have never under stood about Nixon is his total identification with the Republican Party and his understanding of it. His acceptance speech was pure Nixon, telling it as the party would like it to be?1968 style...
Both universities accept the need for merger, if only reluctantly. Founded by Queen Elizabeth I in 1591, Trinity College has been one of the few centers of free, unfettered thought in Ireland. Its graduates include Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Beckett. Faculty traditionalists fear that the school will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal...