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IN AMERICA'S CLOSE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
challenger Jimmy Car–
ter bested incumbent Gerald Ford with
50.5%
of the popular vote. At one
point in the campaign Carter had held more than a thirty-point lead over
Ford. Pol/ster George Gal/up stated that the President was in the midst of a
dramatic comeback un
ti/
he stumbled over key foreign-policy issues- sup–
posedly his forte - in the second of three nationally televised debates be–
tween the two candidates (right).
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Washington
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London
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Peking
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Beirut
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Tokyo .
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Guatemala City .
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Johannesburg
RECORD LOW, RECORD HIGH:
In Britain, high inflation, low productivity,
anda push by the left wing of the ruling Labour party for the government to
take over more of the economy pushed the British pound down to record
lows.
ON MARS,
two Viking spacecraft sent back stunningly clear pictures of
the red planet's surtace but failed to provide any substantiation of lite or or–
ganic molecules.