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...also erred in feeling that voters would view this race in the same way that they had his earlier elections: as a challenge by a dangerous extremist. But unlike McIntyre's earlier opponents, the attractive aviator did not come across as a radical. This apparently was enough to prod moderate Republicans to return to the G.O.P...
Following the provisions of the Railway Act, which was designed to prevent sudden, paralyzing rail shutdowns, the President appointed a fact-finding panel of three arbitrators to recommend terms of a settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...
...York City for the association's annual convention, that obstacle fell away too. By a vote of 141 to 69, the A.B.A.'s House of Delegates agreed to approve TV advertising, as long as it is "presented in a dignified manner." The decision will probably prod the 43 state bar associations that do not already allow TV advertising to do likewise...
...Senate considered the economic sanctions voted by the U.N. in 1966 and 1968 to isolate the white Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith after it refused to share power with the black majority. The Administration wanted no change in U.S. policy. It views the sanctions as a powerful lever to prod Smith to accept an Anglo-American plan for a comprehensive settlement. This plan calls for participation by all black factions, guerrillas based outside the country as well as moderate nationalists inside. But there has been a growing feeling in Congress that the Administration's commitment to this formula does...
...articles published a year ago helped prod the organization to a new fiscal openness. Corporate Report, a Midwest business magazine, said that because of inadequate financial data, the Minnesota Commerce Department was looking into a B.G.E.A. gift-annuity plan, which supporters bequeath money to, and draw interest income from until they die. (After protracted negotiations, the data were provided, and the state approved the annuity sales.) The magazine also disclosed that B.G.E.A. had refused financial information requested on a voluntary basis by the state's charities division and by the Better Business Bureau; the bureau's latest report...