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...U.S.S.R. Sweden, which has diplomatic relations with Hanoi, has made cautious overtures, but has shied away from accepting a role as a neutral site for the internment of P.O.W.s, which the U.S. would like it to do under a Geneva Convention provision. The Communist countries generally express sympathy but contend that the U.S. must work the problem out directly with the North Vietnamese. Since December 1968, the Soviet Union has served as a conveyor belt for packages to North Viet Nam. Parcels are sent directly to Moscow. From there they are flown in sealed bags on Soviet planes through China...
There have been plenty of ills to care for since Haack took over in 1967. He had to contend first with a runaway bull market and then a severe slowdown in the securities industry. There were times, he says, when "I slept very well between 2:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m." In many of the mergers on Wall Street over the past twelve months, Haack has been the man holding the shotgun...
...first "vacancy" sign they see, say the executives of Holiday Inns, the nation's most ubiquitous innkeeper. At the first cheap place they can find, contend the officers of Motel 6, a chain whose $6-a-person basic rate has inspired competitors across the nation to pare their prices. "At my place," answers Earl Gagosian, president of a California-based chain of just about the most expensive motels in the country...
...major problems with which the Harvard police contend are assaults on woman students and thefts in the Houses. This semester, at least two rapes have been reported. In response, the Harvard police have established an extra detail for Radcliffe's Currier House and have gotten the Cambridge police to deploy an extra 5 to 15 men in the general Radcliffe area...
...Faculty Council decision allows students with religious conflicts in the January schedule to take the exam in mid-April while make-up exams for the final exam period are held the following October. Jewish leaders contend that the three to four month waiting period is unfair to Jewish students...