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...American-educated Pakistani President, 45, discussed the troubled subcontinent with TIME Correspondent William Stewart at the presidential mountaintop retreat at Murree in the hills above Rawalpindi. "As Bhutto walked in, smiling, confident and modishly dressed in a blue striped suit with a figured tie, his personal gunman quietly withdrew," cabled Stewart. "During the next hour and a half, he displayed all the animation, emotion and sly intelligence that has baffled India's leaders since he became President of Pakistan. Later we were joined by his wife and three of his four children, including a son who is home...
...group of young right-wing followers to a military headquarters in western Tokyo. There, in a violent and extravagantly eccentric display of the artist engage, he broke into the commander's office, harangued some mocking soldiers from a balcony about the disgraces of fading Japanese imperial tradition, withdrew and committed harakiri. A companion ritually lopped off the head of Japan's most celebrated postwar literary talent, a man who had often been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize...
After the California primary, McGovern withdrew his proposal for further study. When he presented his new welfare reform proposals almost three months later, his earlier commitment to supplementing the incomes of working people--poor and not-so-poor--was gone. Throughout the campaign, McGovern stood fairly firm on tax reform--taking money from the rich--but after California, he offered less of that money to the poor and none to the middle class. His advocacy of total reform had given way, or so it seemed, to the requirements of political reality...
...first inkling of Smith's trouble came in mid-May, when the Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in shares of Westgate-California Corp., the conglomerate of which Smith is chairman, after its accountants withdrew their certification of the company's 1972 financial statements. Then last week two lengthy federal investigations into Smith's affairs suddenly bore fruit. The SEC filed a suit in San Diego federal court alleging that Smith, Westgate President Philip A. Toft, Michael J. Coen, a former Westgage director, and several corporate defendants had systematically looted the conglomerate of some $100 million...
...stock owners in the U.S. declined for the first time since the N.Y.S.E. began counting in 1952, and holders of mutual-fund shares sold more than they bought for the first time since record keeping began in 1941. Odd-lotters, who trade fewer than 100 shares at a clip, withdrew a whopping $2.3 billion from the stock market last year...