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SENATOR CHARLES MATHIAS of Maryland, 50, is a leading figure in a group of a dozen or so Republican moderates generally referred to by White House aides as "those bastards." The so-called Wednesday Club over the past four years has often carried enough weight to offset the uneasy coalition of conservative Republicans and equally conservative Democrats that generally supports the President. A veteran of four House terms, Mathias is deeply concerned with the role of Congress. As co-chairman (with Senator Adlai Stevenson III) of a series of bipartisan hearings on the problem, Mathias said...
...will be equipped with a Xerox 2400 copier and an A.B. Dick Expediter offset duplicator. The machines were supposed to be in operation December 15 but there were technicians still working on them part time yesterday...
Columbia University agreed to grant The Daily Spectator a $25,000 loan to help offset a $40,000 debt which threatened to close the 96-year-old paper...
...million loan to Uganda and announced the phasing out of a technical-assistance program, Amin promised "very drastic" measures-perhaps a break in relations and the expulsion of Britons as "imperialists." He also boasted that the French government had promised to increase its aid to Uganda to offset much of what the British were taking away. In Paris, a spokesman for French President Georges Pompidou denied that any such promise had been made, adding that "France is approaching the question of aid to Uganda with the greatest caution...
...OTHER NEUTRALS-including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria-are publicly enthusiastic about détente, but in private they are extremely cautious. They realize that their neutrality would be endangered in a Europe that did not have U.S. power to offset Soviet military strength. "Do you know what MBFR stands for?" a Scandinavian diplomat asked TIME Correspondent David Tinnin in Helsinki last week. Before Tinnin could answer, the diplomat replied, "It means more benefits for the Russians...