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...year after the big flap over the battle for Angola and whether or not the U.S. should intervene to limit Soviet influence, how is the country doing? Answer: poorly...
...flap illustrates a hardy truism: steel-price increases arouse more political excitement than increases in the price of almost anything else. True, the decibel level of the uproar this time hardly matched the furor of 1952, when settlement of a bitter steel strike turned largely on how big a price increase mills would be granted under Korean War price controls, or 1962, when President Kennedy marshaled all the power of the White House to force a steel-price rollback. Still, steel men note caustically, aluminum makers in November announced price increases of as much as 11 % on some products without...
...greatly fear that the slogan for De Laurentiis' film, "There is still only one King Kong," will prove only too true. I could be wrong; this new Kong just might flap his arms and fly off to the moon...
Cooked Spaghetti. The flap has obscured two issues raised by the boycott: the boycott itself and the mysterious Arab "blacklist" of American firms. The boycott bans from Arab trade any company whose business substantially helps Israel. Complying with it, as the candidates have failed to note, is not illegal; no U.S. law forces a company that sells to Arabs to sell to Israelis also...
...Morale. The Wilkins flap was part of a deeper crisis in the venerable association. The organization came close to bankruptcy early this year when a Mississippi court ordered it to pay a white policeman $210,000 after state officers of the N.A.A.C.P. had accused him of brutality. Only a special $300,000 contribution from General Motors Corp. enabled the N.A.A.C.P. to post a $262,000 bond in order to appeal the state court's ruling...