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...negotiating" under a Nixon ultimatum: agree by Oct. 15 or the White House would impose mandatory quotas under the U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act. U.S. officials further warned that failure to agree to textile quotas could delay the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. With the same strong-arm threat of mandatory quotas, the U.S. forced similar agreements on South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong last week. In return, the U.S. lifted the 10% surcharge on textiles from all countries. Except for steel, goods that are restricted by import quotas are exempt from the surcharge, and under rules...
...details. Nixon will not even be the man watching over the bargaining sessions and the eventual enforcement of pay-price rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
...course, have a dual function. At home they were never busier than during the Stalin era, when they organized and executed the purges and ran the labor camps. Today the KGB is headed by Yuri Andropov, 57, a Brezhnev Protégé who is clearly subordinate to the political arm of the party. A powerfully built man over 6 ft. tall, Andropov proved his ruthlessness in Hungary as ambassador at the time of the 1956 uprising. It was he who encouraged a delegation of Hungarians to meet with top Soviet officers in Budapest to talk about a withdrawal of Russian troops...
...strife-torn African country, representing Britain there "as a hole might represent a bucket." During an interview with an imprisoned black hero, Tony mouths bromides about using prisons as universities. At a subsequent party he rides a bike into a swimming pool. After recuperating from a broken arm and a fragmented psyche, he goes back to England, formally leaves Elizabeth and politics...
...early interceptions off the arm of Foster undoubtedly forced Restic to retreat from his preferred "balanced" offense to a running game which proved effective until Harvard got inside Northeastern's 20-yard line...