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High flying Jack Ford,son of outspoken Betty Ford, has finally made it after hanging out with all of them rock stars: Jack's mug is on the latest cover of Rolling Stone. When asked if he still smoked pot he hemmed and hawed saying, "it didn't seem to be uhhhin ... a needed part of my life. It just made life a lot easier not to than to do it." But an anonymous Secret Service agent 'fessed up, saying "Jack is not a stoned hippie . . . he probably smokes a joint or two. But he's not a pothead."

The Caribbean is growing as one of the world's leading potential crisis points. According to Pacific News Service, U.S. concern over rising Soviet an Cuban  influence in the Caribbean has prompted the former chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to predict that "in the next two decades the Soviet naval presence in the Caribbean and South America is likely to become stronger- giving muscle to Soviet diplomacy and trade ambitions. The nationalism of the Caribbean countries is making America nervous especially since America has financial interests spread across the Caribbean. Also, a vast complex of military installations in the Caribbean service America's military and intelligence activities in Latin America. Of these military installations America is eager to preserve its own Bermuda Triangle of great bases Guantanamo, Cuba; Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico-the Pearl Harbor of the Atlantic; and the Panama Canal Zone, which has 14 military bases alone. What Monroe Doctrine?

There were two Fritzs at the 1976 Democratic National Convention in NYC. The first "Fritz'", Walter "Fritz" Mondale (brother of' William "Mort" Mondale) is the new symbol of Democratic Party unity.

The second "Fritz," Fritz Efaw, was one of the only visible signs ol division at the convention. Efaw was cheered by some, while other delegates showed their displeasure by holding their noses and booing. Efaw, it seems, is one of the new delegates from abroad he's spent the last seven years in exile in England for being a draft resister. In an attempt to bring the question of total amnesty for the 790,000 draft resisters before the convention, Fritz was nominated for the vice-presidency. Efaw would be covered under Jimmy Carter's proposed "pardon plan,'" which would apply to only 7,000 draft resisters.