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...Administration charges that a number of Soviet actions have violated the essence of detente, as codified by the 1972 statement of Basic Principles signed by Nixon and Brezhnev. This committed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to prevent situations "capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations" and "which would serve to increase international tensions." Moscow has ignored that pledge by its military intervention in Ethiopia, persistent attempts to derail Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Middle East peace initiative, and efforts to discredit the Anglo-American formula for the peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in southern Africa...
...Washington, FBI officials were alarmed by the allegations about Rowe. Some FBI critics have argued for years that the bureau's system of paying informants encourages them to provoke more crimes than they prevent. In Rowe's case, he started out in 1959 earning an occasional $20 from the FBI for tidbits of information. But at his peak he was paid a steady $300 a month. Rowe testified before a Senate committee investigating FBI undercover agents in 1975, while wearing a hood to disguise his new identity. He told the Senators then that FBI agents had approved...
...Cuban advisers had accompanied the raiders and Washington claimed to have proof that Cubans had helped train the Katangese and thus were "responsible" for Shaba II. Cuban President Fidel Castro denied the charge, insisting that he and Neto had both opposed the Katangese raid and had tried, unsuccessfully, to prevent...
However, the Federal Reserve and the Administration must try to get along. The Fed cannot press a tight-money policy so far as to prevent the Treasury from borrowing enough to cover the budget deficit (that would mean Government failure to pay its bills, which would shake the whole financial structure), but it can foil Administration policy by being tight or loose. So every chairman becomes a nonofficial adviser to the President...
...SUPREME COURT did not, of course, rule that everyone has to have an abortion. And it is possible to prevent pregnancy, even though there is no completely foolproof method. But given the fact that in one year, Massachusetts Medicaid has paid for an average of 5000 abortions, it is apparent that there is a great need for them. White, middle-and upper-class women should not be the only ones to enjoy this privilege...