Word: demand
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Modest Progress. Topping Thieu's list of priorities in Hawaii is his demand for unequivocal assurances from L.B.J. that the Paris parley does not foreshadow unilateral American with drawal from the war. Other requests: a U.S. guarantee of South Viet Nam's territorial integrity, a commitment to uphold his constitutionally elected regime, and a promise that no attempt will be made to arrange a cease-fire by bringing the Viet Cong into a coalition government. Johnson is apparently primed to assuage Thieu's fears, emphasizing that nothing has been held back from Saigon and that no amount...
...youth-service officer have been assigned to each ghetto station as emissaries to the neighborhood. Each station, in addition, has established a citizens' council that brings together 20 to 50 residents a month to discuss local problems with the police. One such meeting in Watts elicited a demand for a crackdown on bars serving as hangouts for prostitutes. The police listened, then acted against the bars. Another time a group from the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts brought in a suggestion for a community police service corps; they already had some 60 boys and girls, ages...
...home, the Kremlin is having its own persistent problems with Russia's dissident intellectuals, who continue to badger the regime to relax its tight control on free expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
Persistent Deadlock. The striking members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers left their jobs June 21, demanding an 18% pay increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...
...P.H.S. did not limit its concern to lung cancer, but pointed to an "increasing convergence" of new evidence that smoking can contribute to the development of heart disease. It does this, according to latest research, by producing a gap between the heart's demand for oxygen and the blood's ability to supply...