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...Arab world, should the talks with Israel collapse. For Brown and for Carter, to whom the Secretary will report immediately on his return to Washington, the hours of talks with Sadat offered an alarming perspective on just how volatile the Middle East might be without a peace accord...
SALT II. And even as Teng was on his way home, White House Science Adviser Frank Press was arriving in Moscow. There Press emphasized that the U.S.Chinese agreements on science and technology contained nothing that was not already available to the U.S.S.R. Press also signed an accord setting next year's agenda for the seven-year-old U.S.-U.S.S.R. Joint Commission on Science and Technology. The two nations will work on projects dealing with meteorology, water resources and microbiology...
...other unions. Practically speaking, the drivers' victory was a death blow to Prime Minister James Callaghan's attempt to enforce a 5% ceiling on wage increases this year. Callaghan met with heads of the powerful Trades Union Congress in an effort to patch together a new labor accord, but without any conclusive results. He also summoned leaders of four public service unions to 10 Downing Street, imploring them to show compassion for the public. The uncompromising response from one union official: "We will put the screws on tighter and tighter...
...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
...positions to be finally agreed. We trust that the principle of equality and equal security, which the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. recognize as the starting point, will prompt correct decisions and that President Carter and I will be able in the near future to affix our signatures to the accord. The task set by life itself ?to put an end to the unrestrained arms race, to ensure security for our nations and to consolidate international peace at a lower level of military confrontation?is worth the effort...