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...skillfully in negotiations with Arab governments. The Israelis regarded him as also a leader of the shadowy Palestinian terrorist group, Black September. Abu Daoud, the Al-Fatah leader imprisoned in Jordan, seemed to support this belief in a recent "confession" about the inner workings of Fatah, but other Palestinians contend that his statement was made under duress and was untrue...
...hydrocarbons. Auto engineers who banked nearly all their antipollution hopes on that device now claim that by 1975 it will still have major defects−including a marked tendency to conk out long before it has endured the legally required 50,000 miles of service. Furthermore, the engineers contend, auto companies have never before introduced such a complicated and bug-prone piece of equipment on every new car in a single year. Any attempt to force them to do so with the catalyst, Detroit officials warn, could cause supply problems and even shut down plants. The cars that were produced...
...article has already stirred opposition from civil rights leaders and others, who charge that it does not sufficiently emphasize that huge numbers of blacks are still in poverty. Critics also contend that the essay relies too heavily on U.S. Census figures, which, they say, tend to underestimate the number of poor blacks in the ghettos...
...federal level, there is an added argument against rent control that may yet enable President Nixon to stop the congressional drive to enact it. Even some liberal economists contend that adapting federal standards to the bewildering variety of local housing conditions across the country is an administrative impossibility. But local laws are another matter, particularly in communities where a housing shortage has created an overwhelming temptation for landlords to gouge. In those areas, at least for a limited period of rapid inflation, rent controls may be an inescapable necessity...
...basic problems we have to contend with is deciding what aspects of the Institute's program we should highlight when we make proposals for funding," Patterson said...