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...candidate all of a state's votes, no matter how small his popular plurality, reformers also reduce the bargaining power and importance of state party organizations. The Senate, traditionally more sensitive to states' rights than the House, is likely to provide a tougher battleground than the lower chamber...
...imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high finance, equally at ease in galleries of modern art, in a Riviera nightclub or behind a university lectern...
...militants, Syria last week sent a group of guerrillas to attack a Lebanese military post. They were driven off when reinforcements arrived. No matter what the politicians agree on, the 15,000-man Lebanese army will find it difficult to control the 1,000 guerrillas camped on the lower slopes of Mount Hermon. The guerrillas are determined, in the words of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to "operate from every Arab position around the occupied homeland" -by which they mean Israel...
...majority of sociologists and anthropologists-including most Negro experts-the Cultural Mafia agrees with Herskovits. Its members believe that they have discovered a number of behavioral parallels between native Africans and black Americans. One similarity is the typical way that many Negroes laugh: they cover their mouths, lower their heads and do a little dance with their feet. Such behavior was once explained away as light-hearted childishness, but some anthropologists now believe that it may well be African in origin...
After De Gaulle's departure, speculators rushed to buy marks, knocking the franc, the dollar and the pound to the lower limits set by the International Monetary Fund. The prospects of another franc devaluation-the eighth since World War II-caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...