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...Senators last week, leading statesmen of the member nations kept emphasizing that it will be politically possible to deploy new medium-range theater missiles in Europe only if SALT is approved. Without the pact, jittery West Europeans living only a few hundred miles from the Iron Curtain would not consent to the nuclear weaponry that nato so urgently needs, notably 1,000-mile range Pershing II and ground-based Cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet cities and military targets...
...recent album by Rachel Sweet contains a seductive imperative to its youthful purchasers in its title--Fool Around--that we must guard against. Miss Sweet is reportedly only 16 years of age, below the age of consent, and her singing of such licentious lyrics as the above constitutes a sick and depraved attack on decency...
...failure to acknowledge the active role of the post-Watergate press corps in Washington date it by a decade. The stale details of Director Jerry Schatzberg's grander set pieces - among them a predominantly white and middle-aged Democratic Convention - look like the '50s of Advise and Consent...
...Kuif, a high-ranking female in the colony. A worker began vigils outside Kuif s night cage holding bottle and babe. At first, Kuif did her best to hide her keen curiosity; in the chimp world, no one is supposed to approach a newborn without its mother's consent. After two weeks, Roosje was placed inside Kuifs cage, and to the scientists' delight, Kuif immediately cuddled her new charge, took a bottle, then awkwardly but lovingly began to feed Roosje. Remarkably, too, Kuif soon was producing milk herself, her mammary glands stimulated by her new baby...
...period of three months was not just gratuitous generosity. It was also aimed at spurring U.S. action on the Palestinian question. In fact, TIME has learned that Saudi Crown Prince Fahd himself has played a key role in coaxing Arafat toward moderation. When Fahd got Arafat's consent, he gave the O.K. for increased oil production. Acutely aware that taps can be as easily turned off as on, the Administration fears that if the U.S. does not grasp the opportunity to engage the Palestinians in the peace process now, it could face serious cutbacks in Arab oil supplies...