Word: maintained
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...seats, declining to 210. Yet the old Southern conservatism is losing some of its force, for reasons that have to do more with actuarial necessity than with migration. The Southern barons in Congress, the men re-elected term after term so that they could use the seniority system to maintain power, are retiring or dying off. Most of the leaders of the potent Senate committees are from far outside the Sunbelt: Humphrey of Minnesota, Muskie of Maine, Kennedy of Massachusetts, Church of Idaho, Proxmire of Wisconsin...
...internists themselves maintain that they present a standard and balanced repertoire and don't push any particular methods. Wacker, for instance, sizes up the pill to prospective users by first admitting that it has side-effects, but they are all fairly well-known. Since the estrogen levels of the pill have been reduced, "you don't find any increasing toxity," Wacker says, adding that the pill has now been used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard...
...results of the second Sinai accord; they claim Israel got nothing of substance from Egypt in exchange for surrendering the Abu Rudeis oilfields and the Sinai passes. Last week the Cabinet recoiled when Rabin outlined the gist of a new U.S.-Israeli approach to further Middle East negotiations. To maintain diplomatic momentum, the U.S. has proposed continuing discussions among Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, toward an "end of the state of war." When Rabin brought the proposal to his Cabinet, he was pinned down in a crossfire. Hawks accused the Premier of being ready to give away too much...
Unless the fishing-rights dispute is resolved, Iceland might withdraw from NATO and rip up bilateral agreements with Washington that allow the U.S. to maintain a naval airbase at Keflavik. The base is a key NATO installation; its facilities include long-range aircraft, radar, ICBM warning and tracking systems and ELINT (electronic intelligence) units. U.S. surveillance aircraft fly from Keflavik to monitor Soviet surface and submarine traffic in the North Atlantic...
...mile fishing limit causing the trouble stems from Iceland's attempts to save a key segment of its economy. The tiny island country (pop. 219,000) wants more control over fishing rights in its coastal areas to maintain fish stocks, especially cod. Sales of cod account for fully 40% of Iceland's exports, but this vital crop could vanish in a few years, Icelanders claim, unless drastic conservation measures are taken. Even British officials concede that cod stocks are dwindling, but argue that the situation is not so perilous as Iceland says...