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...Skylab space station [Aug. 14] does not need to be sacrificed if we are willing to swallow our pride and ask the Soviets to attach the modest rocket boosters to Skylab that will raise it to a temporarily safe orbit. They are clearly able to do this right now, as numerous recent exploits indicate...
When the House turned to the $7.3 billion foreign aid bill, it was unexpectedly sympathetic to some of the Administration's arguments. Defeated, for example, was an attempt to attach strings on aid to international organizations, like the World Bank, to prohibit them from using U.S. contributions to assist Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Uganda. State Department lobbyists successfully argued that these agencies could not accept money with such conditions. Voting the restrictions, therefore, could force the U.S. to quit the organizations. Heartened by its victory on this issue, the Administration is more optimistic about the prospects for the rest...
...announcement brought mixed reactions from the 15,000 workers remaining at various Youngstown Sheet and Tube plants in the U.S. While older men expressed deep relief that their pensions would not be washed out by bankruptcy, some younger workers were bitter that the Justice Department failed to attach conditions protecting existing jobs. This was discussed during the negotiation with the companies, but, said a Justice Department official, such conditions "would have got us into an area beyond our role...
...title at least, it appeared that the top man in the new regime would be the Prime Minister, Noor Mohammed Taraki, 61. He is a soft-spoken novelist and journalist who was once (1952-53) an attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail...
...overconfidence among treaty supporters, Carter urged all Cabinet members to keep trying to win more Senate votes. Indeed, top White House aides claimed that three Senators who voted against the neutrality treaty have indicated that they may support the second accord. As added insurance, treaty proponents are willing to attach minor reservations to make it more palatable to some wavering Senators. Thus, barring a major blunder by supporters, the treaty should pass with votes to spare...