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...landing of the two intervening nights. At issue is a longstanding and sensitive dispute over who must decide whether or not to land. With their own lives at stake, as well as those of their passengers, pilots have long insisted on final authority over such decisions. Current federal regulations accord them that right. At each airport the Federal Aviation Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need...
SALT. Limiting strategic arms remains the elusive goal of the SALT talks. At the semiweekly plenary sessions, the American and Soviet negotiating teams will be trying once again to hone an accord from the general guidelines adopted by Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev at their Vladivostok summit last November. There the two leaders agreed to limit their nations' arsenals to 2,400 strategic weapons each, of which 1,320 could be armed with multiple warheads, or MIRVs (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles...
...Accord. In sum, a consensus seems to be forming that something should be done to get the world off the price roller coaster. This does not mean, however, that anything will actually be done. So far, Kissinger has offered little more than a willingness to talk, and some deeply divisive issues must be overcome before any stabilization agreements can be reached. For one thing, the U.S., which produces 85% of its own raw materials, still believes that the free market balances supply and demand well enough so that stabilization pacts should only smooth out the wilder swings; but many developing...
Above all, there is no accord on the gut issue of how high or how low prices should be stabilized under any new agreements. Many developing nations, for example, want to "index" raw materials prices to the trend of world prices for all kinds of goods as a method of transferring wealth from rich countries to poor lands. The U.S. and most other industrial nations fear that indexing would touch off a permanent runaway inflation that would hurt the whole world. For that matter, there is not even agreement within the Administration on how conciliatory U.S. policy should be. Kissinger...
...Israelis also scored with an economic accord signed in Washington last week by Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz. Unlike the EEC pact, it touches only lightly on trade matters, but provides for joint financing of a $20 million desalination plant, the supply of raw materials by the U.S. and, most important, the encouragement of private U.S. investment in Israel-which was down 50% in the recession year...