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...bloodiest and potentially the most dangerous of the world's atavistic conflicts. Moscow hailed its 20-year treaty of non-aggression and mutual cooperation with New Delhi as a move designed to forestall total warfare between India and Pakistan. It probably is that in part, but the accord, by apparently ending India's nonalignment, also promises important benefits for the Soviet Union. It gives the Russians influence and status on the Indian subcontinent, perhaps including ports of call and bunkering facilities for the Soviet Union's growing Indian Ocean fleet. Most important, the treaty was a countermeasure...
While the top negotiators sought accord on a national contract, lower-level company men and local union chiefs met amid relative harmony in as many as 26 hotel rooms to resolve, about 15,000 local issues. Discussions involved items as diverse as the quality of toilet paper in plant lavatories, layoff procedures and safety precautions. At U.S. Steel's Gary plant, for example, workers wanted the water for their showers pumped from city reservoirs instead of from Lake Michigan. "Christ," said one delegate, "now you smell worse after taking a shower than you did before...
...toward Washington]: There are no straight roads in the world. We must be prepared to follow twists and turns and not try to get things on the cheap. It must not be imagined that one fine morning all the reactionaries will go down on their knees of their own accord. How to give "tit-for-tat" depends upon the situation. Sometimes, not going to negotiations is tit-for-tat, and sometimes, going to negotiations is also tit-for-tat. We were right not to go before and also right to go this time...
Final Snag. Even at the last minute, those pessimists had very nearly been right. Despite the recent Paris accord between French President Georges Pompidou and British Prime Minister Edward Heath about the desirability of Britain's admission, the negotiations hit one final snag. The issue was New Zealand, whose English-descended dairy farmers depend heavily on United Kingdom markets for their economic survival. The New Zealanders urgently wanted guarantees that after the mother country joined the Common Market and passed behind its protectionist agricultural tariffs, their cheese and butter exports would continue to their best customer...
Almost a week later, the building occupation ended of its own accord-before the anticipated bust could take place. About 65 singing, chanting women left 888 Memorial Drive at 2:30 p.m. Monday, March...