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Unclear Policy. The King's greater fear is another war with Israel. He intends to avoid it and also to blunt the boycott with a few new diplomatic moves of his own. Hussein, who until recently was opposed to municipal elections being held this month in Arab towns on the occupied West Bank, is now acquiescent. The King is also trying to increase traffic with the West Bank over the Allenby Bridge...
...same time, though, the expense of keeping U.S. military forces abroad will grow (unless offset payments from host allies also increase). The devaluation thus could diminish the U.S. role in the world in blunt military terms-and psychologically as well. Yet if the humbling of the dollar seemed to diminish American eminence, it also demonstrated that the U.S. is increasingly learning to face the inevitable and measure its power more realistically...
...Nixon Administration drew a fusillade of criticism last week for its policy on India and Pakistan. Two weeks ago, when war broke out between the two traditional enemies, a State Department spokesman issued an unusually blunt statement, placing the burden of blame on India. Soon after that, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations George Bush branded the Indian action as "aggression"-a word that Washington subsequently but lamely explained had not been "authorized...
...ahead. Gerstenberg's outstanding record of money management, and his articulateness in defending the auto industry against a growing number of critics, made him the choice. Thus "old Gerstenberg the bookkeeper," as he once described himself, beat out his main rival, President Edward N. Cole, also 62, a blunt, highly able engineer who will continue as G.M.'s chief operating officer...
...Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus by Wilfrid Blunt. 256 pages. Viking. $14.95. The study of 18th century science can be an ennobling exercise. Outstanding men rose to survey and catalogue Nature's radiant data into logical systems. In Sweden, Carl Linne -Linnaeus to the world-collected, named and scientifically organized plants for the first time in history. Wilfrid Blunt's richly decorated biography admirably illustrates how Linnaeus' single mindedness and plodding devotion to stamens and pistils laid the foundation of modern botany...