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...Science Monitor is hiking its advertising and subscription rates and dropping some 100 employees. The Monitor is also switching to tabloid size in April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid the elimination of 100 jobs. WTTG-TV, Washington's Metromedia outlet, cut its budget by $500,000 this year and laid off a reporter and a weather forecaster. At Hugh Hefner's Playboy Enterprises...
Disorder under Heaven. The phrase, an old quotation from Mao Tse-tung, was used to dramatize China's chief domestic rallying cry: total self-reliance. It also summed up China's reaction to Kissinger's four-day visit. Having arrived from Vladivostok after accompanying President Ford on his summit meeting with Soviet leaders, Kissinger was in Peking to reassure China that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly...
Probably, all of this will be hidden during Kissinger's four-day stay. But the issues are too important to remain under wraps for long. Key positions in the military hierarchy, including the jobs of Defense Minister and Chief of Staff, have been vacant since Mao's onetime heir-apparent, Lin Piao, allegedly attempted to assassinate the Chairman in 1971. Apparently the party and the army have been unable to agree on suitable candidates for these very powerful posts. That alone spells serious trouble for the leadership's efforts to pull the country together in preparation...
...final act of the four-day drama took only 15 minutes. The hostages were all in good health and cheerily waved at newsmen as they were driven away, eager, no doubt, to forget the whole thing-at least until they see it re-enacted on the home screen...
Never having been forced to live within the confines of a reservation, the Indians of St. Augustine have avoided so far many of the chronic problems faced by Indians in the United States. Alcoholism, for example, is not a problem. Drinking--beer only--is done in three or four-day sprees after the arrival of welfare checks or when cousins and friends from down the coast come to visit in the summer. Rather than violence, their drinking seems to invoke depression for the most part. Drunken men wander up and down the boardwalk in front of the single...