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...plain below, where fruit trees were blossoming in contrast to the snow above, the fighting on the mountain was already having a profound political effect. Syria's President Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able...
Sherrill romps sardonically over the history, sociology and psychology of America's love affair with the gat with out getting bogged down in the theoretical musings of experts. The over whelming evidence of his senses seems sufficient. His best achievement is to report fully and clearly the most impor tant facts about guns: they are a huge, influential business. Last year alone, Americans spent $581.6 million for fire arms and ammunition...
...indeed, invest the term journalist with a new and lofty impor tance. Those of us who practice the craft (Mr. Luce might have called it a profession) will be constantly reminded of just how important his manifold contributions were. And, agree or disagree, we are all in his debt...
...allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist's literary fame "does not provide a carte blanche when he ventures into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself...
Nowhere was this more visible than in the U.S., where both business and government frequently based their most impor tant economic actions on the need to become more competitive in world markets. The turning point of the year for the U.S. economy?the great steel crisis?seemed a peculiarly domestic fuss. But when U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough decided to raise steel prices $6 a ton less than a week after his company had signed its first noninflationary labor contract since the Korean war. he used foreign competition as a justification for his move. Overseas competitors, paying lower wages...