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...discussion of East-West relations may be somewhat more encouraging. Last week the U.S. and Russia announced that they would resume working-level negotiations on SALT I early this month. Late in May, high-level talks are expected to start again. The announcement seemed to confirm Carter's claim that the quick adjournment of the SALT talks in March was not as calamitous as many observers made it out to be. Basically, there are no differences between the Europeans and Carter on the need to make detente into a two-way exchange, with benefits for both East and West...
Lyman said officials of neither College desired a complete merger, and after a complete re-evaluation of Radcliffe's income, the high-level committee developed the present plan to allow Radcliffe to remain independent...
...assistant most trusted and respected by Carter, Jordan has completed the time-consuming task of leading the talent search for high-level appointees. Now he is moving forcefully into policy decisions. Other aides say that Jordan, sorry that he had not got himself more deeply involved in the decision making on Carter's minimum-wage proposal last month, eagerly responded to Carter's call to join the energy-program deliberations. When Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Economics Adviser Charles Schultze wanted to express doubts about part of the plan, they sent a tough memo to Carter...
...programming executive who is without an ounce of compassion; William Holden plays a deposed news executive who gambles on her capacity for love--and loses. Holden is a little dull, but Dunaway and Peter Finch, the crazed commentator, manage to carry off the film's roller coaster ride of high-level network looniness." Well, as veterans of the Lincoln brigade might have said in response to Franco sympathizers during the Spanish Civil war: go to the front yourself and see what line you come away with...
...Carter's decision flew in the face of some high-level backing for breeders. The Government's own Energy Research and Development Administration had long advocated plutonium power, arguing that it would save the U.S. $50 billion in energy costs over 30 years. Even more curiously, in March Energy Chief James Schlesinger commissioned a panel of eleven energy and environment experts to study the breeder issue. The group's report, which endorsed further development of plutonium as a fuel source and concluded that the danger of weapons proliferation existed with all kinds of reactors-not only breeders...