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...running at only $55 million a year. A third, highly risky in a U.S. election year, would be a threat to tax the heavy contributions sent to Israel by the U.S. Jewish community (1969 estimate: $250 million). Such moves would drive a wedge between Israel and the U.S., its firmest ally. In fact, some observers speculate that just such a development is the real objective of the Soviet-Egyptian decision to support the Rogers plan...
...social sores. It will also have a corrosive effect on morals as well as public attitudes. Indirectly, tax inequities can only increase today's growing disrespect for institutions and laws of all kinds. Thus the tax mess undermines the nation at a time when the U.S. needs the firmest kind of foundation to cope with internal strains and external pressures...
...national security affairs, on a visit to the United Nations for a conference with Secretary-General U Thant. Early in the new Administration, Nixon intends to make a good-will trip to Western Europe for conferences with the principal NATO allies, but the decision is still tentative. The firmest plan that emerged from Nixon headquarters was his itinerary for the holiday season. He is to spend this week in Key Biscayne, Fla., where he has just bought a $128,000 house, then fly to Los Angeles for the Rose Bowl game. A fan of U.S.C. Running Back O. J. Simpson...
...Negro areas. Ward has ordered 20 seats per night to be held for Negroes who show up on the spur of the moment at the box office. But talent has no color line. The care and skill displayed in the production of Song of the Lusitanian Bogey is the firmest lease that the ensemble has on future audiences-black and white alike...
...1920s. As for deaths resulting from abortions, which are better recorded, the annual toll is probably about 1,000. No one can accurately add up the number of U. S. women who go to Puerto Rico, Japan, and other places where abortions are easily, if expensively, obtained. The firmest figure is the number of legal abortions (10,000 a year) performed in hospitals-and they are decreasing. In the early 1940s, one pregnancy in 150 was aborted to save women with such diseases as di abetes, tuberculosis and hypertension. Now medical advances have helped to cut the ratio...