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...practical concerns. We oppose the program because it is--to borrow a line from one of Reagan's three-by-five cards--an empty symbol. It will not deter the Russians, or anyone else, from doing anything, and it only helps buttress the assumption that the answer to geopolitical friction is military action. Moreover, registration does nothing to improve the Pentagon's legitimate manpower deficiency in the existing reserve forces; and those are the divisions which would respond initially to a crisis. In addition, registration has already made federal criminals out of at least 800,000 young men. How will...
...that those violet eyes began to wander. At one point, she was linked to Foxes Producer Zev Bufman, 51. Bufman, married to his wife Vilma for 23 years, laughed at the reports. Unlike some of Taylor's splits, this one, says her spokeswoman, Chen Sam, seems free of friction: "Each party accepts this change in their relationship with sadness but with no bitterness between them...
...soil between East and West German leaders since Chancellor Willy Brandt helped launch his Ostpolitik in 1970 by meeting with East German Premier Willi Stoph in Erfurt, 40 miles east of the frontier. Initiated by the East Germans, the weekend summit had been twice postponed because of East-West friction over the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in Poland. A further irritant was provided last year by the Honecker government's new currency regulations, which greatly increased the cost of travel from West to East and thus reduced the number of such trips by West...
EVER SINCE the Nationalist Party assumed power in South Africa in 1948 and instituted apartheid, friction between Blacks and whites has escalated dramatically. There have been continuous protests highlighted by serious riots in 1960 and further violence...
...people who marched through Amsterdam last weekend showed dramatically, the movement draws its strength from a broad cross section of society, much as the U.S. anti-Viet Nam protests did: housewives, professionals, academics, clerics and union members. "Today's situation is probably more serious than the crises and friction we've had in the alliance during the past 30 years," says