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...Avert Disaster. There is a good possibility that Hussein was offering considerably more in private than he appeared to be in public. High-placed Arabs in both Egypt and Jordan have been leaking reports that the Arabs are indeed willing to negotiate face to face with Israel, to sign a formal peace treaty and even to concede such land as the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Whatever Hussein brought with him, there was no question of the urgency with which he brought it. The war left Jordan in deep trouble, and Hussein badly needs to find...
...never had it so good," it is doubtful that U.S. voters will give him all the credit. "They think that they had something to do with it, too," says a Democratic strategist. Johnson contends that his proposed 10% surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes would help avert inflation, but he is having little luck in persuading Congress. Unless the surcharge is enacted, he warns, in a particularly infelicitous phrase that he has been using frequently, most Americans will wind up paying an "inaction inflation tax." Example: a family with a $10,000 income would pay an additional...
...group of about 300 demonstrators met in Mallinckrodt Hall last night and agreed to four demands which it says the Harvard Administration must meet by next Monday to avert further student protest. Dean Glimp said the Faculty will meet "next Tuesday or Wednesday" to consider the group's demands...
...CONTINUE THE PRESENT STRATEGY. Those who support a continuation of the Administration's course argue that its policies have just begun to pay off. When the U.S. went into Viet Nam in force 30 months ago, its object was to avert an imminent Viet Cong victory. Now, says Westmoreland, "the enemy is in the worst posture he has been in since the war started." Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness. Nonetheless, the Communists have lost ten times more men than...
...thing that helped avert bloodshed in New Haven last week was a small aerosol bomb, the "Chemical Mace," that is being put into use by some 2,000 law-enforcement agencies across the country and in time may well replace the head-cracking, bone-breaking billy club. Dubbed the "gentle persuader" by some policemen, the Mace fits inconspicuously in a belt holster-and looks about as persuasive as a can of shaving foam...