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...last week they clearly did not have the two-thirds majority needed to break the veto. "We may back into an energy policy," says Barber Conable, a New York Republican member of Ways and Means. "By the Democrats' failing to block the President, we may get a partial policy...
Abroad too there has been only partial relaxation. If Baghdad and Washington manage to improve relations, Iraq would still be left with two implacable enemies, Israel and neighboring Syria. Syria also has a strong Baath Party, which espouses the same principles of Arab socialism and nationalism that Baghdad does. But the two regimes have conflicting visions of Arab unity, compounded by some practical problems. Currently, Iraq's relations with Syria are at the breaking point over disposition of water from the Euphrates River. Baghdad charges that Damascus has deliberately stored up so much water behind its new Tabqa...
Each year Harvard and MIT voluntarily pay a combined total of $800,000 to the city in partial compensation for their tax-exempt status. City Manager James L. Sullivan on Monday said this town gown arrangement has been a model for university communities elsewhere in the country. "Frankly," he said, "it's not required. And it's a generous addition to the city rolls...
...Partial Values. Bright's plans are far more intricate than the famed Hampton Court Palace maze outside London ("Not much to solve there," sniffs Bright. " All you need to do is keep taking the left turn"). One Bright invention is what he calls the principle of "partial valves," by which, he says enigmatically, he introduces "a bias in a closed system of paths so I can make it more difficult to get from Point B to A than from A to B." Another feature of his people-traps is Bright's Principle...
...tactics are highly imaginative: one of their December 27 demands was that the government give a pay raise to the lower ranks of the National Guard, and obvious efforts to separate the soldiers from the officers. And two weeks later, doubtless embarrassed by the demand. Somoza did grant a partial pay hike, although he claimed it had been scheduled all along...