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...would "undermine the security of the Soviet Union." (Nixon says that he will "ask the Congress to provide authority to extend guarantees to American private investment" in Yugoslavia and Rumania.) And in the vital field of limitations on strategic arms, the U.S. acknowledges that "no nation will maintain an accord which it believes jeopardizes its survival." When the legitimate interests of the two superpowers collide, the President suggests, restraint and mutual concession are the only rational ways to accommodate their differences...
Stiff Bargain. By the time last week's accord ended a month of confrontation in Teheran, the Shah had established himself as leader of the world's oil-producing nations and changed the balance of power between oil-producing and consuming countries. Under the stiff provisions of a new, five-year pact, the posted price of Persian Gulf oil-on which royalties and taxes are calculated-will rise by 35? per bbl. The producing companies' taxes will also go up 5%, to 55%. Every year until 1975, the companies will pay an additional 5? per bbl., plus...
Pressure from the Dollar. For all the caution, there is, as French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann commented, "a strong incentive built into the plan to move forward." Indeed so. The Europeans were propelled into unexpectedly early accord by the profligacy of the U.S. For most of two decades. European nations have been accumulating dollars at a rising rate as a result of U.S. balance of payments deficits. Common Market countries complain that the flow of dollars affects interest rates, finances the takeover of European firms by U.S. companies and promotes inflation on the Continent, since central banks have to issue...
...corporation, a financial institution with an endowment of $1.3 billion, the largest employer in Cambridge, and an influential institution throughout Boston and America. As students, we are a part of this institution and therefore have a responsibility to work to change its operations so that they are in accord with some standard of social responsibility...
...Geneva Accord between the great powers which declared Laos to be neutral flew in the face of this political reality. It set up the International Control Commission, made up of Polish, Canadian, and Indian representatives, under a mandate to regulate Laotian neutrality, to police foreign intervention...