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...dollar dilemma has been the world's primary economic problem since President Nixon on Aug. 15 declared that the U.S. would no longer redeem foreign-held dollars with gold. In the frenetic currency trading that followed, the mark has floated up 12.2% in value against the dollar from its last official rate, the yen 11.6%, the British pound 4.1%. The U.S. seeks to push some foreign-currency values up even more, and make the new rates official; it originally aimed for foreign revaluations averaging 12% to 15%. The Europeans and Japanese have demanded that the U.S. formally devalue...
...Campaign Dilemma. To keep American power from being undermined at a critical stage in overseas developments, the President ordered an all-out lobbying effort to defeat the Mansfield Amendment, which would have reduced U.S. forces in Europe by 60,000. Though the proposal was heavily supported in the beginning, it was defeated in the Senate last week by a comfortable 15-vote margin. The President's domestic design did not fare so well. He had urged Congress to pass a $27.4 billion tax cut to stimulate the economy. The House gave him about what he asked...
...Super Dilemma. The domestic ramifications of the situation are not lost on the Arabs. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott in Cairo last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, a shrewd and seasoned diplomat, professed to be confused. "It is something we cannot understand-how a superpower wild certain responsibilities about peace in the world can be affected by some votes in an election. We don't understand how it is commonly accepted that the Jews are a community completely separate from other Americans, as if their loyalty is to Israel rather than to their own country...
Thomas feels that the Harvard community is generally unappreciative of the dilemma which confronts the athlete. "It's very disintegrating to dedicate yourself to a sport and still follow four courses at the same time. It's hard to find the right pace," he said...
...Buddy Holly. There are episodes involving lust-crazed groupies, a sleazy impresario named Ranee Muhammitz (Theodore Bikel) and a character called Larry the Dwarf, who is played by Ringo Starr made up to look exactly like Frank Zappa. There is even an animated cartoon ostensibly about the "dental-hygiene dilemma," which is set inside the mouth of none other than Donald Duck. Zappa and Co-Director Tony Palmer, shooting with video tape, overindulge in elaborate color effects that give the movie the touchingly antiquated look of a psychedelic record jacket. The craziness climaxes, fittingly enough, with full cast and chorus...