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...balanced diagnoses of the nation's two most urgent and baffling internal problems: the deeper causes, and perhaps some prescription for cure, of the pervasive and profound malaise which afflicts the nation's psyche, and the highly complex and intractable confrontation of the nation's two largest and most influential minorities-an alienation which cannot possibly be understood or mitigated merely as resurgent "anti-Semitism." More; these two masterly pieces take places among the half-dozen most distinguished articles in TIME'S 46 years...
...Council, which met in Cairo last week, Nasser promised the fedayeen "unlimited moral and material support, without reservations or conditions." The 105-member council, which considers itself a Parliament in exile for the Palestinians, elected as its chairman Yasser Arafat (TIME Cover, Dec. 13), spokesman for El Fatah, the largest fedayeen organization. The post makes him the Palestinians' official representative to Arab governments and the collection agent for their contributions to the guerrilla movement. Even so, Arafat's election did nothing to bridge the rift between El Fatah and the rival fedayeen organizations that boycotted the conference, notably...
...Pappas has made a lifetime habit of cultivating the powerful. Now a cherub-faced, grandfatherly figure of 69, he has become a power himself -though not always quite so potent as he likes to let on. He says: "Spiro followed my advice and switched from Rockefeller to Nixon." The largest U.S. firms seek his aid before doing business in Greece, where Pappas counts as the best-connected American citizen around. His close ties with Greece's strongman, George Papadopoulos, and the ruling military junta have made him an unofficial representative of Athens in Washington and in the U.S. business...
...Interstate Commerce Commission deserves every one of its superlatives: it is the oldest and largest of the federal regulatory agencies - and the most ineffective. Overseeing some 18,000 companies involved in transport by truck, rail, waterway and pipeline, the ICC regulates industries that account for 20% of the gross national product...
Black leaders called another large student rally for 8 p.m. last night in response to the Guard call-up. The rally was expected to draw the largest number of students since the protest began last Friday...