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...year agreement that would set ambitious goals for U.S.-Soviet trade through 1984. One barrier to increased trade has been the Jackson amendment, which for the past year has kept the Administration from granting the U.S.S.R. the trade concessions of most-favored-nation status until Russia allows free emigration from its borders. The amendment is designed mostly to help Jews who want to go to Israel, and Senator Henry Jackson appears willing now to compromise with the Administration if Nixon can get a promise from Brezhnev that more Jews-about 35,000 emigrated last year-will be allowed...
...Brezhnev Doctrine," and started the current drive to repress dissent at home (see box page 26). "He is not making Khrushchev's mistake," says Carl Linden, a leading Soviet affairs expert at George Washington University. "Khrushchev tried to couple relaxation abroad with relaxation at home, while Brezhnev has kept the two separate. He realizes there is a fundamental antagonism between the two spheres. Brezhnev is a hard-nosed, realistic politician, a Machiavellian prince who is acutely aware of the two-sided-ness of Soviet policy...
...several years now Americans have been hearing a somber new slogan: "Death with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support machines. To prevent such dehumanizing procedures, the advocates of death with dignity recommend that doctors be allowed to cease extraordinary lifesaving efforts when it is clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during...
...there in my civvies, staring at all those black and red costumes, I kept wondering if everything was hanging right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky...
...section has had great success. In 1967 Lazard Partner Stanley De J. Osborne arranged the merger with McDonnell Aircraft that kept Douglas Aircraft from going under; later, Partner Howard S. Kniffin helped Boise Cascade spin off a number of enterprises in mobile homes and chemicals that were doing little for it but lose money. Meyer, still active at 75, last week headed off a threatened proxy fight at the Signal Cos. (shipping, Mack trucks, radio stations, the California Angels baseball team) by getting an Italian investment group to buy a major interest...