Word: helpful
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...Romney fared somewhat better. To help keep his $1.1 billion budget balanced, he got a $270 million tax increase through the legislature, giving Michigan its first income tax. Reagan, meanwhile, had to sign California's biggest budget ever, a $5.1 billion package. Moreover, because the deadline was running out at the end of the fiscal year, he had to do so before the legislature acted on the $1 billion tax increase he requested. Reagan hopes to get the increase through by mid-July...
Heroic Albanians. Whoever was responsible for the flare-up by the canal, it was obvious that it is going to be a painfully slow business to work out a settlement in the Middle East. Nor is the U.N. offering much practical help. After Soviet Russia weighed in with a draft resolution demanding that Israel give up all it had won, delegates from Zambia, Somalia, Malaysia and Burundi read off lengthy speeches asking that Israel be condemned for attacking the Arabs and forced to retreat from Arab territory. Yugoslavia, supported by 16 pro-Arab nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel...
...other Arab nations were in any position to help Nasser-or themselves. As a result of the Middle East oil embargo (see WORLD BUSINESS), Iraq's gold reserves are expected to dip perilously low. In Syria, which lost the vital revenues from two oil pipelines, the capital city of Damascus began rationing food last week. Lebanon's $85 million-a-year tourist industry, meantime, has all but dried up. Hardest hit is Jordan: it lost not only the tourist-rich Old City of Jerusalem but, at least for the time being, the agricultural lands on the west bank...
...Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders, however, the plight of the refugees is such a valuable political weapon against the Israelis that they will do nothing to help break up the camps...
...longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation. He is even setting up headquarters for a broader Tri-Continental Organization...