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...lobbyists was shot to death, another employee was shot and wounded, and others have been robbed at gunpoint. Of course, the lobbyists will have to remain in the capital to fight gun control, including a mild ban, recently approved by the House Judiciary Committee, on the manufacture and import of cheap Saturday-night specials...
Other key Kissinger points: 1) the Administration will seek repeal of the Byrd amendment, enacted in 1971, which allows American companies to import Rhodesian chrome in violation of U.N.-imposed sanctions; 2) Washington will try to enlist other countries, notably South Africa and France, in a program of strict compliance with the sanctions, especially on arms; 3) American citizens in Rhodesia-some 900 -will be urged to leave; 4) the U.S. will give Mozambique $12.5 million in aid to help make up for losses suffered from its border closing with Rhodesia, and supply assistance to some 17,000 black Rhodesian...
Differing with Healey are such key labor leaders as Jack Jones, chief of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and Len Murray, T.U.C. general secretary. They insist that a 5% limit is feasible, provided it is matched by import controls and strict regulation of prices. But the government is opposed to curbs on imports, believing quite rightly that they would only provoke retaliation by other nations and choke off any chance that Britain has of an export-led recovery. Healey also wants to loosen rather than tighten price controls to give British industry sufficient profits to invest more heavily...
...arrived of a mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty, when the first chrysanthemum reached France from China, when Captain John Paul Jones was accused (falsely) of an attempted rape of a ten-year-old girl in Russia, and when Traitor Benedict Arnold was floundering in his attempt to run an import-export business in Canada. Our cover subject for the week? The inevitable, overwhelming choice: George Washington, who gave the new Republic the highest gift in his power, character...
...straighten out the mess, Portugal's new democratically elected government will have to take some tough measures that may make things worse before they get better. Basket-case industries like textile mills and electronics may be allowed to go under. Further import controls may be imposed, accompanied by a large devaluation of the escudo. "This country has to learn to work again," says Raul de Almeida Capela, a director of the Banco Portuguès do Atlántico. After the two-year political free-for-all, that may not be an easy task...