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...SEVEN-UPS are a squad of special cops operating inside the New York City police force. They are brutally efficient, although they could hardly be called an elite corps; their tactics owe as much to football fields and medieval dungeons as the precinct house. The movie, coarse and hammer hard, follows the cops as they bust up an underworld kidnaping ring and avenge the death of a squad member. Director Philip d'Antoni, who produced Bullitt and The French Connection, has cut The Seven-Ups to pattern. The chase scene measures up just fine against its predecessors...
Canada is most unlikely to close off investment opportunities altogether. Its citizens recognize that they owe much of their high standard of living-second only to the U.S.-to the expansion of industry that has been made possible by foreign capital. Indeed, the country urgently needs more foreign investment to create jobs for its growing work force; the Canadian gross national product is rising 7% this year, but the unemployment rate is 6%. The new law is designed not to keep out foreign capital but to make sure that it comes in on Canada's terms...
Richard A. Musgrave, Burbank Professor of Political Economics, said yesterday the president may well owe some back taxes on these transactions, but if they are paid he will definitely not be liable for prosecution. "In general, it looks to me like an imprudent use of favorable interpretations," he said...
...thing is certain: Knight has the solid backing of his fellow agents. Says one veteran agent: "This appointment is different from the past Nixon track record; he's not a former Nixon advance man. He's his own man-and he doesn't owe anybody anything...
...governments. Previous U.S. aid was often given with the provision that it be spent on high priced United States products. A Council representative from Ohio explained, "This aid is not a gift or payment for future favors. It is but a tiny part--a first installment--of what we owe the rest of the world, and it is returned in a spirit of brotherhood...