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Maintaining that no substitute could equal the quality of the traditional product, Coop General Manager James A. Argeros said the Coop would not embroil itself in the labor squabble...
...last week around 3,000 infantrymen and nearly 100 tanks moved across the border into neighboring Lebanon. This was another desperate attempt to help end the 14-month-old fratricidal bloodletting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives. It was also a high-risk gamble that could embroil the Syrians in a major confrontation with most of the Palestinian movement. Yet this new attempt at a Pax Syriana may just force the Lebanese to discuss their differences long enough to permit a political compromise to take root. At week's end talks were under way, fueling hopes...
...least reshaping-the Government is a popular idea these days even with many liberal Democrats, who have scented the same political winds as Ford. What is more, the President's conservative budget will certainly help him against the conservative Reagan. But it is also certain to embroil him in sharp battles with Congress...
...controversy is not the first to embroil Schorr in recent years. Early in the Nixon Administration he angered the President by reporting, accurately, that there was no evidence to support Nixon's claim that he had programs ready to aid parochial schools. His reward: Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate him. During Watergate, Schorr became TV's most visible investigative reporter and shared three Emmys with his colleagues. Last February Schorr moved into new territory by reporting President Ford's fear that the clamor to investigate the CIA might reveal the agency's role in foreign...
...well in motion, no such ruling or procedure has emerged to deal with de facto segregation created by the grouping of blacks in neighborhoods. The Southern strategists clearly hope that any attempt to move massively against the far more complex problems posed by de facto segregation would embroil the whole issue in new controversy, tie up the limited manpower resources of the Justice Department and HEW in complex investigations, and give the South more time to stall in desegregating its own schools...