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Yarmolinsky gained these impressions recently while attending the tenth annual meeting of the Institute of Strategic Studies in Oxford, England...
With the federal capture of Owerri two weeks ago, Nigeria's civil war entered a new and perhaps final phase. Secessionist Biafra, now less than one-tenth its original size, holds but one important town: Umuahia. Should it fall, Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would lose his last physical claim on breakaway statehood and be forced, if he is still able, to carry on his fight for Biafra's Ibo people from the jungle. As it advanced slowly but steadily on Umuahia last week, TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes joined Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando division. His report...
...seconds ahead of Providence ace Mike Kelly. Yardlings Bob Seals and Rick Jurgens captured third and fourth, respectively, and Alan Long finished strongly to meet nail down sixth. After the third Providence runner finished, Andy Meltzoff followed two UMass harriers across the line, wrapping up the scoring with as tenth-place finish. Rapidly improving Phil Lichtenstein was eleventh, displacing runners from both visiting teams...
Fewer than one-tenth of the normalsized Economics I enrollment probably will take the course pass-fail; and in several other courses, where official tallies have not been made, few students have requested enrollment on a pass-fail basis...
Jelinek based his attack on the technique that has so often been successful in the South--mobilization of Northern sentiment. After the CBS special, SRRP received 20,000 pounds of raw hamburger from a Northern donor. The hamburger itself might be of some help--it could give perhaps a tenth of the poor families one wholesome meal. But it would obviously be only a token effort, unless SRRP could exploit it to change the national programs...