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During his presentation yesterday, Steiner said that students will now have to sign special consent forms in order for Faculty members to write letters of recommendation...
...politically. In a dramatic break with past French policy, President Giscard d'Estaing is now pushing for the very unifying changes that France opposed only a few months ago. He wants many decisions of the Council of Ministers to be made by majority vote rather than by unanimous consent, and he would like to increase the prestige of the Parliament of Europe, which is now a mere debating body, by having its members elected rather than appointed...
...consent decree, which suggests Government approval of Bell's ownership of Western Electric, casts a long shadow. In any case, antitrust officials concede privately that they are so uncertain about the possible economic impact if they succeed in their suit that they are undecided as to how hard they should press for their maximum demands. Says one Antitrust Division spokesman: "We're leaving enough room to avoid any possibility of financial destruction of the company or destruction of the national telephone system...
...wariness raises questions about why it moved against Bell at a time when the economy is so shaky. Part of the answer may he in the play of personalities in a new and still largely undefined Administration. Career trustbusters have long chafed to overturn the Eisenhower Administration consent decree, which they view as an affront to the Antitrust Division. In August 1973, some lower-level Justice staffers dusted off the Bell files and mounted an investigation. After 15 months and two changes of Attorneys...
...Syrian President Assad may well consent to a renewal of the U.N. mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate...