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Moving. He has appointed his McGovernite predecessor, Jean Westwood, to the Charter Commission, which has the job of setting up a mid-term party convention in 1974. George Meany, one of Strauss's principal backers, is unhappy with United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock because he supported McGovern. But Strauss will keep Woodcock as chairman of the Commission on Delegate Selection...
...declared off limits to foreign navies, and it came out against a resolution once more ordering Israel out of occupied Arab territories. It also refused to legitimatize armed struggles in southern Africa because, as U.S. Ambassador George Bush put it, support for guerrilla armies was "contrary to the U.N. charter...
...Federal Aviation Administration approves United Air Lines' plan to halve the price of tickets bought 90 days in advance. Air fare forms a major part of the cost of any European trip. A wintertime flight from New York to Zurich or Geneva is $238 round trip; charter flights can be considerably less...
...American conservatives may have arched their eyebrows well above the hairline when they glimpsed the latest issue of William F. Buckley Jr.'s staunchly nonpermissive National Review. There on the cover was the headline: THE TIME HAS COME: ABOLISH THE POT LAWS. Inside, Richard C. Cowan, a charter member of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom, sets forth his arguments that the criminal penalties for marijuana possession and use should be stricken from the books. Cowan contends that pot is comparatively harmless, demonstrably ubiquitous and that the laws against it only alienate the young and breed disrespect for American...
...does overseas examinations for the FAA, reported that he had put 804 U.S. and German pilots through voluntary checkups stricter than those the FAA requires. Over a period of eight years, Dr. Sauer's examinations revealed that at least 50 pilots, nearly all of them Americans who fly charter planes, had diseases that could have made them unfit to fly. Some had serious cardiovascular disorders which might not have shown up in FAA exams. Other problems discovered included diabetes, liver ailments, syphilis, tuberculosis, paratyphoid fever and kidney disease. Several had two or more maladies...