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...Convention (named for Togo's capital city, where the accord was signed) put into effect earlier this year by the European Economic Community and 46 nations, mostly former European colonies in Africa, covering twelve commodities. When export revenues fall below a reference point, the EEC makes compensating cash payments to commodity producers. When incomes rise above the reference point, the producers must reimburse...
Predictably, Arab countries protested the agreement with Israel; Algeria requested cancellation of an Arab-Common Market parley that was in the last stages of preparation. The Arabs' pique seemed to be directed not so much at the EEC-Israeli accord, but at the fact that it was signed before any Arab state was brought into the EEC's scheme for a Mediterranean free-trade area...
...been without fault, and in some aspects each has been shoddy. Even though there are real differences in quality between schools now, the quality of Boston's schools needs upgrading, and city funding formulas need to be re-evaluated. However, the Supreme Court and the judge are acting in accord with an unambiguous dictate of the Constitution: it is unlawful to deliberately execute plans to make the distribution of students in public school facilities racially biased. Changing the pattern of busing is the best available means of rectifying the inequity, and preliminary evidence is available to document its educational value...
...Sandinistas the choice is clear. If they would free their country from North American domination, if they would plan their economy with the needs of their people and not the profits of the wealthy in mind, if they would broaden the bases of political participation and accord each man and woman in all Nicaragua the respect and dignity that each merits--the Sandinistas must fight. If they would feed the hungry and create meaningful work for the poor, if they would repatriate the parachutists, who are outcasts in their own land, if they would draw upon their own resources...
When the Vietnam peace accord was signed over two years ago it was welcomed by the National Liberation Front not only as a harbinger of peace but as the chance for a people uprotted by war to return to their homes and to choose their own government. But the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the extension of the NLF, was denied access to the press and to free elections--both were provided for in the agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were...