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...expect even the immediate targets, fixed by the present percentages, to be reached in a year or two. Given the relatively small number of people hired each year at the senior level, progress will necessarily be more gradual, but it should be steady and consistent over time, approaching nearer and nearer to the guidelines even as the percentages they set increase. At the junior level, it ought to be possible to reach the present guideline in about five years...
...among the front-line troops of Japan's export drive. For Japanese, New York is a prize foreign assignment because it is the corporate capital of the U.S. Besides, the skyscrapers, neon lights, choking traffic and pollution make it seem almost like home. "Tokyo cannot find a city nearer to it than York," says Norio Ochi, director of the Japan Trade Center in Manhattan. The average tour of duty is three years, and all but top executives must leave their wives and families in Japan for at least the first six months...
Gore said, however, that Nixon's Southern strategy would lead the Republicans to defeat. "The race question is nearer to a solution in the South than anywhere else in the country. Don't be surprised if a decade from now, liberalism and progressive thought is the hallmark of Southern politics," he said...
This year's annual-spring-protest is being organized by the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC). It will be large, legal, and peaceful. Organizers of the rally and march are hoping for a turn-out of half a million, but two-hundred thousand seems nearer the mark. NPAC is basically a front organization for the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), which has managed to retain a remarkable continuity of leadership and membership, while other anti-war organizations have split apart at the seams. One reason for SMC's organizational continuity has been the influence of the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), which...
...very important fact. They're losing a hundred thousand Greeks from the labor force annually, net. Now keep in mind that the population increase in Greece is eighty-five thousand per annum, net. The reproduction rate is eighty-five thousand. But emigration is a hundred thousand now, it's nearer that number again. It had reached the number under the rightist government of Karamanlis, and it's back again. It means many things for the nation, but for them it means relief on the unemployment rate-this is an escape valve. Let the Greek go to Germany, to Canada...