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...Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, the delegates from the 46 O.A.U. nations gave up their effort to find a way to halt the fighting. In fact, all they were able to do was demonstrate just how little unity there is in the O.A.U. The delegates not only failed to adopt a resolution on Angola, they could not even agree on a final communique. Concluded Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda: "Our failure to find a solution here confirms that the O.A.U. has no power to shape the destiny of Africa...
Members of the league, who adopt a Trotskyite line on the importance of proletarian origins for a revolutionary movement, were continually ignored by the more ardent MPLA supporters. The criticism that those supporters, many of whom are Africans, were responding to was the Maoist criticism, that the MPLA cannot be supported because it is backed by the Soviet Union and will be used as an agent of "social imperialism...
...testing to see whether those standards are met. The EPA requires testing during a car's pre-production stage, long before it begins rolling off assembly lines. California, on the other hand, tests production-line cars. That difference will soon end; within a month the Government will adopt the stiffer procedure, also requiring tests of actual production vehicles...
What Not to Do. How to reach whatever targets might be set? The way not to do it is to adopt the AFL-ClO-Humphrey-Hawkins approach. This inevitably would pump so much money into the economy as to raise demand to the point at which employers sign on almost anybody who shows up, with the Government hiring the residue, many in make-work jobs. A non-partisan study last May by the Library of Congress indicated that an attempt to get the overall jobless rate down to 3% within 18 months would push inflation back...
Rather than a crash program, the nation needs years of steady growth in production at somewhere around the 6% pace widely predicted for 1976 to come anywhere close to full employment. In order to achieve 6% economic expansion for several years, the Government may well have to adopt more generous money-supply, tax and spending policies. But even steady growth will not solve the problems of low skills and high turnover rates among would-be workers that now contribute so heavily to high unemployment. The nation also needs supplementary programs offering specific help to the people who now find...