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...Japan face continuing inflation and rising unemployment, brought on, in part, by a disruption of the oil trade. Beyond that looms the danger of U.S.-Soviet confrontation. Washington policymakers, uncertain about the leftist impulses of Iran's ubiquitous "students" ?and perhaps some members of Iran's ruling Revolutionary Council???fear that the country may become a new target of opportunity for Soviet adventurism. The Kremlin leaders in turn must contend with the danger that the U.S.S.R.'s 50 million Muslims could be aroused by Khomeini's incendiary Islamic nationalism. Yet if the Soviets chose to take advantage...
...period of near chaos in the coal dispute began on Feb. 12. That was when the 39-member U.M.W. bargaining council???with rowdy support from rank and file miners, who barged into U.M.W. headquarters?rejected President Miller's initial agreement with the B.C.O.A. The agreement called for a three-year wage increase, from $8.11 an hour to $10.46. But the pact also allowed mine owners to penalize workers who joined in a wildcat strike by requiring offenders to pay $20 a day to the U.M.W. health fund. The owners were adamant on the wildcat provision because 2.5 million man-days...
...Each pushed his own ideas, Cabinet members pressed for theirs, and Nixon found himself in need of a coordinator of domestic programs comparable to Henry Kissinger in foreign affairs. The President put Ehrlichman in the job and will doubtless upgrade him further on July 1, when the Domestic Affairs Council???a counterpart to the National Security Council???comes into being...
...other points, the Federal Council voted with comparative unanimity. Advocated by Dr. Charles Stedman MacFar-land, general secretary of the executive committee, sex education was encouraged by the council???"in view of the influences tending to lower the ideals of marriage, weaken the sense of marital, parental, and social responsibility and undermine the home...
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