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...concerning ground forces in Europe, where the Warsaw Pact combat forces outnumber NATO forces by at least 2 to 1. With the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) negotiations soon to begin in Vienna between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, many Europeans are increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make Moscow the guarantor of peace in Europe and thus replace 25 years of Pax Americana with Pax Sovietica...
According to the rules governing the Visiting Committees, their members-chosen by the chairman, usually an Overseer-need not be alumni; and some are not. But Eekstein, discussing the wealth of the members of the Economics Visiting Committee, said. "Proletarians do not loom large among Harvard alumni: and an organization will naturally choose its most successful alumni for such a group...
...presidential campaigns. But Harris had failed to consult city and state Democrats in advance. Many refused to cooperate, claiming that they did not want to siphon off money they needed for their elections next November. Why ask donors to contribute to a lost cause when tough new races loom ahead...
...Since she broke with the conservative, big-city bosses of her party last fall, splitting Congress into two feuding factions, Indira and her socialist followers have been under pressure to call elections before long. The long-ignored harijans, numbering about one-seventh of India's 560 million population, loom as a powerful and perhaps pivotal bloc...
...problem next year. But Watt argues that California's air pollution is already so bad that it may start a wave of mass deaths by 1975?perhaps beginning in Long Beach. He also blames pollutants for the rising number of deaths from emphysema in Southern California. Trouble may well loom for Los Angeles, which sits in a smoggy bowl that often contains only 300 ft. of air. Almost every other day, the city's public schools forbid children to exercise lest they breathe too deeply...