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President Nicolae Ceauşescu had to postpone the opening of the Tenth Congress of Rumania's Communist Party for two days in order to give workmen time to take down the American flags on the city's street lamps and replace them with substitute banners in honor of the guest delegations from 66 countries. The new decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid...
Biological Predestiny. Men are killing off sperm whales at the rate of 25,000 a year, perhaps one-tenth of the total stock, and Dr. Scheffer is indignant at the profligacy and lack of "humaneness" with which this is done. But it is the whale's biological predestiny that saddens him most. Nature seems to have no future plans for the whale -an animal with beguiling potential yet lacking the indispensable potential to evolve beyond itself...
...TENTH--PANHADLE KANTAR was readied in spring for this route effort...
...TENTH--NEBRASKA FARMER is a Van Berg special...
...TENTH--SAVANALAMAR gets one more chance to carry his speed over a mile...