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...present form. To be sure, the question was whether the week's political moves were too little and too late. The proposals for tripartite prime-ministerial talks for the all-Ulster round-table conference and for the two-day debate in Commons-or even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse the upward spiral of violence. "No night passes without sporadic bombings and snipings, no day without bomb scares," TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast reported from Belfast last week. "On downtown streets there are almost as many armored...
...international monetary arrangements now that President Nixon has unilaterally upset the longstanding consensus by refusing to redeem dollars for gold. The participating nations make up the main trading partners of the International Monetary Fund, which meets in full session in Washington beginning Sept. 27. Participants will probably get some hint of an answer to the question that intrigues them most: How long will the "temporary" 10% U.S. import surtax remain in effect? Nathaniel Samuels, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, is rumored to be suggesting that the surtax might not be removed until after the 1972 election...
...share of the work is ahead." Should one of the workers die, Cammillieri wrote, his demise "will be accepted as an excuse. But we would like two weeks' notice, as we feel it is your duty to teach someone else your job." The grim humor was an adequate hint; Cammillieri is not known as a jokester in Buffalo Mob circles. He closed the notice with the classic Mafia double entendre: "Best of health." The workers had no trouble translating the threat of the Mafioso...
...Protest. The executions had international repercussions. The Soviets could scarcely ignore the attack on an important Middle Eastern Communist party, especially since Communism has such an uncertain hold in the area (see box). Moscow officially warned Khartoum against what it called "the impermissibility of resorting to extreme measures"-a hint that the some 1,000 East bloc technicians working in the Sudan might be recalled...
Characteristic Smoothness. At one point, Susan Shirk, 26, a Ph.D. candidate in political science from M.I.T., asked-with a hint of dismay-how it happened that Richard Nixon had been invited to Peking. Chou was almost apologetic in his reply: "In contacting your Government to normalize relations, we must contact those who are in authority in your country. The governments of the two countries will bear the main responsibility for the normalization of relations between the two countries." With characteristic smoothness, he leaned toward the young scholar and added: "If Susan Shirk were the President of the U.S., then...