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...editorially noted the second anniversary of the Suez Canal ceasefire. Few Israelis would disagree. Not only has there been no shooting along the canal, but terrorism by Arab fedayeen is down sharply, and, most important, the threat of a confrontation with Russia was removed when Soviet forces withdrew from Egypt. For the first time in all of its 24 years, Israel had no challenger in the Middle East-and in many ways was finding the new situation more difficult to cope with than the threat...
...April 20, according to the Justice Department, Barker deposited the $25,000 check in his bank account, along with $89,000 he apparently also received from the C.R.P. by way of a Mexican intermediary. On April 25, Barker withdrew $25,000 from the account. During this period, the FBI has learned, Barker also made several phone calls to the C.R.P. The calls were placed to telephones used by G. Gordon Liddy, who was then the attorney for the C.R.P.'s finance committee. Liddy was fired by the C.R.P. after he refused to answer the questions of FBI agents investigating...
...Louis-born singer was the first fully American-trained soprano to play Isolde and the three Brünnhildes at the Met. Many critics considered her superior to her rival, Kirsten Flagstad. Independent and unstuffy, she was dropped by Met Manager Rudolf Bing for singing in nightclubs. She withdrew to care for her ailing husband and former business manager, William Bass...
After the marathon credentials session, the convention took on an air of inexorability. At noon on Tuesday, "because I can count," Humphrey withdrew his name from the race. Fighting back tears, comforting his wife Muriel, Humphrey told reporters: "This has been a good fight." At 61, it was Humphrey's final farewell. As the 37-year-old mayor of Minneapolis, he had galvanized the 1948 convention with his pleas for civil rights; he had been thought too radical all through the '50s, lost out to John Kennedy in 1960 and to Richard Nixon in 1968, and lived to find himself...
Edmund Muskie also withdrew. "Let us recognize," he said, "that George McGovern's candidacy gives a hope for the long-term health and vigor of the Democratic Party and its processes far more significant than temporary difficulties and irritations from sometimes brash new blood." His leaving was ironic; he had begun 1972 as the front runner in the mind of almost every Democratic politician and political analyst. Although he had been on the point of endorsing McGovern several weeks before, Muskie clung to a stubborn hope. On Monday he tried to call a conference of all the candidates to reach...