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Meanwhile military pressure mounted on white Rhodesians. There are at least 3,000 nationalist guerrillas now operating inside the country, and isolated farmhouses near the Mozambique border come under attack almost nightly. Snipers so imperil the roadways that many Rhodesian trucks and autos now travel in convoys (see below). According to Salisbury, daring raids by Rhodesian army units into Mozambique earlier this month destroyed six guerrilla staging camps and 70 tons of war matériel. Hundreds of freshly trained insurgents, however, are poised to cross into Rhodesia now that the summer rains have started...
...Snowdons, a legal separation was by far the simplest solution. No appearances in court are necessary; lawyers handle all the details. After two years, British law provides that an uncontested divorce could be granted. A divorce would not imperil Margaret's standing in the succession, her $70,000 annual allowance, or her other royal perquisites-so long as she did not try to remarry. If she did, she would have to renounce any claim to the crown and the titles and privileges that accompany...
...Egyptian-Israeli truce there. A House vote of approval is expected this week; the Senate vote will follow. Oil experts from Egypt are then set to move into the Sinai oilfields, later than the original Oct. 5 date specified in the Kissinger negotiations but not too late to imperil the agreement itself...
Some economists actually are already concerned that an overheated recovery could imperil the nation's significant progress in reducing the rate of inflation, which now stands at 8%, v. 14.4% only four months ago. The main worry is that if the recovery fails to reduce the disastrous unemployment rate, now at 8.7%, Congress will institute new spending programs, which in turn would fuel a resumption of inflation. "We have literally sown the seed for the upturn," says Murray Weidenbaum, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. "Let's not flood it with more federal spending...
...Moneychangers will come off encouraged. Fiscal virtue triumphs in the end and has the final words on finance as well. "Banks and the money system," he observes, "are like delicate machinery ... let one component get seriously out of hand because of greed or politics or plain stupidity, and you imperil all the others." Hailey apparently does not feel the same way about fiction. The insider's details that give his novel its texture simply bury its feeble literary qualities...