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American steelmakers got a bit more help last week when European producers, meeting in Rome, proposed to set voluntary limits on their sales in the U.S. The Japanese steel industry had made a similar proposal two weeks earlier. American steelmen mostly see the offers as politically inspired attempts to avert more drastic U.S. action against steel and other imports, but the offers nonetheless indicate that the foreign producers realize they may have been pressing their competitive advantage a bit too hard...
...cent short of the normal Vietnamese harvest. It is therefore even more important than ever that the United States government begin at the earliest possible date to pay reparations to the country it spent nearly 20 years destroying, and immediately authorize funds and send foodstuffs to avert the impending famine...
Even if he wins his fourth election this week, Ian Smith's days in office may be numbered. The Rhodesian Prime Minister is under mounting pressure to give up his impossible dream of perpetuating white minority rule in Salisbury and to avert further bloodshed by acceding to a new U.S.-British peace proposal. The initiative is aimed at ending the five-year-old guerrilla war with nationalist forces and paving the way for black majority rule...
...Father Kosnik's committee delivered its report to the Catholic Theological Society board a year ago, there was a flurry over how to handle it. Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles, then president of the society, says: "We were aware that it was an explosive document." In an effort to avert criticism, Dulles assigned three scholars to review the work and make suggestions to the committee before the fourth and final draft was written...
Stage-door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...