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...Cavett is not stopped before he gets more practice, this Nebraska citybilly, this con merchant in a Brooks Brothers special, this yahoo Yalie, this literate, witty guy, is likely to become a national habit. And then who is going to wash all those dirty dishes...
Egal, a portly, fast-talking merchant's son who was educated in Britain, has called a halt to the guerrilla war that Somali tribesmen have waged for years over disputed land with neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. He has dismissed 3,000 troops from his 11,000-man army and put the rest to work part-time clearing land and building roads. He has asked to join the newly formed East African Economic Community (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) because he feels that Somalia has a better chance of building a viable economy by cooperating with Black Africa rather than with...
...there, asked to be transferred. ABC's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sam Jaffe also decided after three recent weeks in Viet Nam that "I won't cover Khe Sanh, and I refuse to go back to Hué." Summed up Jaffe, 38, who saw action as a merchant seaman in World War II and with the Marines in Korea: "The longer you stay here, the more inevitable it is that you're going to be hurt, maimed or killed...
...help finance regroupings in British industry. To many opposition Tories and business leaders, the I.R.C. smacks of "back door nationalization," under which the government could wind up with a dominant voice in the new industrial combines that it fosters. In fact, the I.R.C.'s own managing director, Merchant Banker Ronald Grierson, made no secret of his growing distaste for Wilson's interventionist economic policies, finally quit his post last October...
...acquisition of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. For that, however, it received criticism as well as praise, especially from A.E.I., which resisted G.E.C.'s takeover attempts until the end. Dear Independence. Grierson's successor in the post of managing director, Charles Villiers, 54, also a merchant banker, has taken on the largely thankless task of assuaging businessmen's fears about excessive government intervention in industry, even while stepping up the I.R.C.'s activities. Insisting that the I.R.C., despite its government ties, operates with a virtually free hand, Villiers says that "such independence is very dear...