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...last high-level Sino-Soviet confrontation was held in February 1965, as Kosygin was also on his way home from a visit to Hanoi. On that occasion, Kosygin made it farther than the airport-he was received by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Almost certainly, they then agreed on the need to increase aid to North Viet Nam, but no progress was evident on the settling of their feud. Since then, the feud has grown to epic proportions. Last March, just after a bitter, bloody Soviet-Chinese clash on the Ussuri River, Kosygin sought to telephone Peking's leaders...
...report went on, is to "double the houses, power systems, sanitation, schools, transport, in fact the whole complex pattern of urban living created over several centuries." Can this goal be accomplished? The record in both rich and poor nations is discouraging, though there are a few bright examples. Through high-level planning, Russia, Britain, Venezuela and India have encouraged the rise of small cities to decentralize population. France and Bulgaria fostered new, strategically located regional centers. Switzerland and The Netherlands have attempted with some success to balance growth between cities and rural towns...
...change of the committee's position on the proposal became known last Wednesday--the same day that representatives of 15 Massachusetts colleges, including one high-level Harvard official, went to Washington to voice their opposition to the proposal...
...boast about. Routine city services operate efficiently enough, and the L.A. area has enjoyed a dramatic economic expansion. However, with power in Los Angeles fragmented between city and county government, Yorty has never attempted to exercise the strong and dynamic leadership that any major city needs. Furthermore, instances of high-level corruption tainted his second term...
...from the desert firing lines. In New York, the U.N. ambassadors of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France are in their sixth week of diplomatic talks on the Middle East. At the same time, the U.S. and Russia are together exploring the shape of a possible settlement at high-level talks in Washington. As Israel's protector-state and, in effect, proxy in the talks, the U.S. is seeking for Israel the ironclad guarantees for peace that the young nation demands in return for handing back the captured territories. The Soviets ideally would like to recoup diplomatically all that...