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Sixteen hostages were killed and 70 hostages were wounded in the action which took place before the terrorists were killed. Reports early this morning were unclear as to whether the hostages had been killed and wounded by terrorist grenades or Israeli gunfire...
...possible for the President by seeking to discredit the testimony of former White House Counsel John Dean against Nixon and by pointing up parts of the transcript that show the President in the best light. "In all the thousands of words spoken," it says, "even though they are often unclear and ambiguous, not once does it appear that the President of the U.S. was engaged in a criminal plot to obstruct justice...
Exactly what the new government in Lisbon will do in Africa is unclear, but if it follows the prescription of Spínola's book, it will not simply dismantle the empire it began 500 years ago, following the discoveries of the great Portuguese explorers* who were first sent out by Prince Henry the Navigator. Spínola, instead, talks of a federation of Portugal and its territories, with real autonomy-but not independence-for the Black African majorities. "Self-determination should not be confused with independence," he said last week. How such an arrangement would work in practice...
...makes a fool of himself in public, he works stealthily behind the lines by befriending Marjorie and the children. While Adams is off researching and occasionally sharing the girl friend of an old Cambridge classmate, Giles and Marjorie become quite chummy. Just how far they go is kept calculatedly unclear by the author at the book's climax. In doing so, Bunting underscores the point that for Adams to be cuckolded by a social inferior is bad enough, but not to be sure may be even worse...
...reasons for the sudden spate of resignations is unclear. In the past, Harvard's resources, salaries and historical pre-eminance were compelling attractions, and Cambridge was a quieter, less crime-ridden place to be. The academic industry in the U.S. was so much smaller then that a handful of universities could easily dominate the profession...