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Facing that reality, Britain last week reached a compromise agreement with the breakaway white-supremacist government of Rhodesia. After six years of coaxing and outright pressure, including an economic embargo, London agreed to permit Rhodesia's return to colonial status just long enough to be granted official independence. It was the issue of independence, which Britain refused to grant until provision was made for some form of black majority rule, that led Premier Ian Smith to cut Rhodesia loose from its ties to Crown and Commonwealth six years ago with his unilateral declaration of independence...
Catholic Tastes. That is putting it mildly. Rats and their parasites carry bubonic plague, murine typhus, trichinosis, leptospirosis and other diseases. Rats bite man in anger or nibble infants in hunger. Rats spoil an estimated 33 million tons of cereals each year, either by eating them outright or contaminating them with droppings. They steal eggs (whole), gnaw lazy elephants' feet and can kill young lambs...
...University of Pennsylvania stomped Cornell, 2-0, before 4000 fans last Saturday at Franklin Field to clinch its first outright Ivy League Soccer Championship...
...raises that would have come due during the freeze. On prices, businessmen expressed some displeasure over the big surprise in the rules: a guideline* on profits (see story on page 30), which were not subject to anything resembling control even during the freeze. But no one has yet proposed outright defiance. By insulating himself through commissions, boards and councils from the rough and tumble of the actual decisions, Richard Nixon clearly succeeded in making Phase II much more of a team project than the freeze had been...
...overall wage guideline at 5.5% annually (see following story), halfway between the original proposals of labor and management. Further, the board decided to permit nearly all wage increases already written into contracts, including some that exceed the 5.5% guideline. The only dispute that the labor members lost outright was their demand that all freeze-delayed increases be paid retroactively...