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Carter's announcement yesterday that the U.S. will stop direct purchasing of Iranian oil drew support from 68.3 per cent of the respondents. More than 45 per cent favored negotiations through the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) although many added the U.S. should not have accepted the PLO's offer of help until all other channels had been tried...
...Although nearly 87 per cent of the students felt Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, should not be turned over to the Iranians. 35.5 per cent favored deportation of the exiled leader...
...Although the Vietnamese troops in Cambodia outnumber the Khmer Rouge 7 to 1, it is by no means certain that Hanoi can defeat the Khmer Rouge. The Cardamom Mountains are densely forested and remote. The Vietnamese supply lines are long and vulnerable to harassment, and the Khmer Rouge know the country. Continuing Vietnamese efforts to root out the guerrillas may merely add to the chaos in Cambodia...
...Although such powerful unions as the Teamsters and the United Automobile Workers have mangled the 7% pay guideline in the contracts they have won this year, the standard has nonetheless helped moderate many salary agreements. In the past year most workers, especially nonunion ones, have settled for pay hikes close to the 7% standard. Wage increases in major union contracts actually declined overall from last year's 8.2%, to 7.5% from January through June. Carter's chief economic adviser, Charles Schultze, hails this as "one of the truly unreported stories of the year...
...Although the national need now is for effective leadership that can begin cutting the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil without further delay, the President and Congress spent much of last week quarreling over what to do about oil industry profits. The low point was reached on Monday in Providence, R.I., when Carter told a conference of Northeastern state officials that the Senate's efforts to water down his proposed windfall profits tax "could become a trillion-dollar giveaway to the oil companies...