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...opening signals from the Carter Administration on the tone of future U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were contradictory, if not downright confusing. On the one hand, the new Administration, responding to some warm overtures from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, announced plans for quick resumption of the long-stalled talks on U.S.-Soviet arms limitations (see following story). But at the same time, in line with Carter's conviction that U.S. foreign policy ought to show more concern for human rights, Washington seemed willing to strain what might yet be a honeymoon of sorts with Moscow. The Administration...
...Conference of Mayors said the plan did not do enough to help cities. The AFL-CIO, led by George Meany, got downright caustic. It adopted a statement calling the program "a retreat from the goals which we understand President-elect Carter to have set during last year's election campaign." The goal the council had in mind was cutting unemployment by 1½ percentage points this year; to do that, the labor leaders want a stimulus of as much as $30 billion in 1977 alone, with most of the money going directly to federal job programs. Most surprising...
...compulsory bonus payments for workers and curbs on union activity. The C.P.I, is also uneasy about the growing influence of Mrs. Gandhi's ambitious son, Sanjay, 30-he is currently using the youth wing of the party as a power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I, attacked what it called a "reactionary caucus" within the Congress. The C.P.I. backed Mrs. Gandhi's 20-point emergency program for social and economic reform, but pointedly withheld support from Sanjay's five-point youth program...
Early in December, storekeepers in some parts of the U.S. were overjoyed as customers flocked to counters. But the pace slackened during the middle eight or nine days of the month. A few retailers became downright despairing, predicting sales below the previous year's. The speedup in the final week, however, pulled them through to at least modest increases...
...early days of the century, when typewriters were upright and competition was downright dirty. American newspapers used to rake each other's muck with all the verve they now expend on erring politicians. These days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused...