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...anti-ballistic missiles, the Soviets have tested four new intercontinental ballistic missiles and have developed their first submarine-launched multiple warhead missile. The Pentagon, meanwhile, as part of a record $85.8 billion budget request, included items to improve missile accuracy, guidance and control that are also meant to prod the Soviets into a formula for "essential equivalence" in missiles and payloads. At a predeparture press conference in Washington last week, Kissinger indicated that the two nations had passed the stage of technical exchanges and were "at the point where we should be making, or should be attempting, a conceptual breakthrough...
...unions seek an official voice in the present coalition government. Prod said that this might not come for several years, although the government does consult with the unions frequently...
...them to handle their internal affairs but intervenes discreetly to make sure all tribes are consulted on local government decisions. Although Gowon rose to power as strongman of an army coup eight years ago, he believes that "you must bring all factions into the process, consult them, advise them, prod them, but above all, make them part of things. It is the only way to build a true nation...
...COLC simultaneously ordered a penny-a-gallon cut in wholesale gasoline prices, but consumers will never see that one; it will be overwhelmed by other in creases permitted due to rising prices for crude oil. The purpose of the two moves is to prod refineries to shift more of their output to home heating oil by making it more profitable to produce, compared with gasoline...
...myriad questions arise, most of them unanswerable in any concrete terms. How good is this doctor? How good was his school? How good was his hospital training? Has he kept up with medical progress? The last is the easiest to answer. Often he has not, because there is no prod beyond his own conscience for him to do so. The American Academy of Family Physicians requires its 35,000 members to take 150 hours of refresher courses in every three years and annually expels about 350 for failure to do so. But this does not keep these men from practicing...