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Ultimately, the argument that is most likely to force the Arab govern ments to reconsider their policy of eth nic economic discrimination is that they run the risk of a backlash against the boycott when they begin to invest their oil billions in Western countries in a big way. As President Ford put it bluntly last week: "Foreign businessmen and in vestors are welcome in the United States when they are willing to conform to the principles of our society...
Cadre Shortage. If only because the Khmer Rouge has also suffered in recent fighting, the Lon Nol government could hold out until the rains return in May, thereby gaining several more months of power. On the other hand, the insurgents could decide to hold back in their attack on the capital, preferring to let the government cave in sooner or later from its own weight. In this way the Khmer Rouge could put off assuming the awesome burden of running -and feeding-a capital that is overflowing with thousands of hungry refugees and hundreds of wounded soldiers and civilians...
...able to hold their first union-forming election. It is doubtful, however, that the workers will let the raises blind them to their need for a union. Despite the generous pay raises, the workers still have no voice whatever in determining the wage and working policies that govern their lives here, nothing to guarantee that next year's raises will be as good as this year...
...University should change its position and allow medical area clerical employees to form their own union. The workers, most of them secretaries are not particularly well-paid and have at the moment no voice in the personnel policies that govern their jobs here. A union would give them some degree of over their working lives...
...want is our daily rice and lentils," said a Dacca shopkeeper. "If we get enough at a price we can afford, we don't care what system is used to govern us." That was a widely shared feeling throughout Bangladesh last week as Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the country to independence from Pakistan in 1971, assumed sweeping presidential powers. Under a new constitutional amendment the parliamentary system was abolished and Bangladesh embarked on what Mujib grandly described as "a second revolution...