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...accent−from Henry Kissinger's German to Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski's Polish. As the special presidential assistant for national security affairs, the brilliant 48-year-old Warsaw-born academic will share with Carter and incoming Secretary of State Cyrus Vance the primary responsibility for the conduct of America's foreign affairs. Whether he will overshadow Vance as McGeorge Bundy sometimes did Dean Rusk and Kissinger almost always did William Rogers, remains to be seen...
...mile limit in line with the intentions of the European Community and Canada. Differences remain to be ironed out with Russian and Japanese fishermen, who traditionally have prowled just beyond the old twelve-mile boundary. Interior will also be called on to regulate the rush of corporations to conduct possibly polluting searches for oil and minerals...
...automen are relieved that they will not have to spend the $600 million that would have been necessary to equip all 1978-model cars with air bags. But they are none too happy about Coleman's request that they put up $48 million of their own money to conduct a demonstration project over the next two years-which they regard as an offer they cannot refuse...
Though he has not been formally charged with lawbreaking, Fraser's conduct has been called into question by authorities for the City, London's financial center. In a scolding report, the London Stock Exchange accused Fraser of "lack of judgment" and "inefficiency and ignorance of financial matters" in his running of the company, but at the same time it cleared him of attempting to use privileged information for personal gain. Still, a group of big investors is applying pressure to have Fraser removed as chairman, and the British Department of Trade is about to begin an investigation...
...viewed through the lens of sociobiology, Wilson has stressed his belief that, at most, 10% or 15% of human behavior is genetically based. "For the moment, perhaps," he wrote in his 1975 book Sociobiology, "it is enough to establish that a single strong thread does indeed run from the conduct of termite colonies and turkey brotherhoods to the social behavior...