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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mild approach to Congress is also at fault. Some veterans on the Hill vividly recall Lyndon Johnson's brutal lobbying as President. "What do you do when the President gets you on the phone and eats your consummate ass out?" asks Ribicoff about L.B.J. "He told me what a low-life bastard I was and how I'd better get right with
...from Canton to pick up "victimized Chinese nationals" at Vietnamese ports. The ships, which were never allowed to dock, are being recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
Since the University recently named him an associate professor, Orren would have had several years before being reviewed for tenure at Harvard. The number of open tenured positions in the Government Department, however, is relatively low...
...exports to last year's levels; but the value of those exports has shot up 20% this year due to the rise of the yen against the U.S. dollar. Ironically, a number of the country's domestic producers are being driven out of business by low-priced imports from developing lands. At some Japanese plants, workers are destroying textile machinery so it can be sold as scrap...
Western Europe. Until now, West Germany has accepted the discomforts of slow growth and high unemployment (1 million, or 4.4% of the work force) in order to keep inflation at a low 2.7%. Schmidt promised to do what he had planned even before the summit: put in a stimulus plan. It calls for pumping $7 billion into the West German economy, largely through tax cuts, and should make his country a larger buyer of imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding...