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...convention time to entice potential Reagan supporters. As for the cabinet and staff shakeup, the primary intention seems to have been the creation of an image, Gerald Ford as a decisive president. William Colby was clearly on the outs, Church committee revelations and good investigative journalism having dealt a virtual death blow to his credibility and that of the entire CIA. Replacing him now, in the context of other changes, merely served to reinforce the decisiveness image. And naming George Bush his successor is of course an appeal to the mainstream and conservative factions of the Republican Party, since Bush...
Fitzsimmon's performance did not outshadow the achievements of Will Brownsberger and Jamie Kiggen, two other first-year runners on the team. Brownsberger finished forty-first overall and third for Harvard in 26:37. "In the beginning of the season, Brownsberger was a virtual unknown," McCurdy explained, "but he's been improving with every race...
...exile to life under Franco's authoritarian rule; in 1948, though, he agreed to have his son educated in Spain under Franco's guidance. Hostility toward the Bourbon heir from both rightists and left-wing antimonarchists was so intense that the ten-year-old Prince became a virtual prisoner in Las Jarillas, a heavily guarded Madrid estate where he began private high school studies. There Juan Carlos received his first indoctrination into the quasi-Fascist philosophy of Franco's Movimiento National...
Phosphate Monopoly. The phosphate, however, has only whetted Morocco's appetite. Outside the U.S. and U.S.S.R., Morocco has about 60% of the world's phosphate-an essential ingredient in fertilizer-and the Spanish Sahara has perhaps another 20%. If Morocco controlled the Sahara, it would have a virtual monopoly and could raise the price of phosphate almost as high as it wanted. Even without the Sahara, it has managed to quintuple prices since 1973, from...
...area. There are also scorpions and several varieties of poisonous snakes, including a viper that is only eight inches long but extremely toxic. To avoid snake bite, Israeli soldiers in the Sinai have been ordered to wear boots rather than sandals, which in turn has led to a virtual epidemic of athlete's foot...