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...Tongsun Park, hastily moved from Washington to London last year after the first published reports that he had given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt was not fully cooperating...
...Carter tried to drive home points with Southern politicians, as well as Soviet leaders, by citing the Bible and Leonid Brezhnev in almost the same breath. After all, Carter noted, the Soviet President had remarked three weeks ago that "realism in politics and the will for detente and progress will ultimately triumph, and mankind will be able to step into the 21st century in conditions of peace, stable as never before." To make this big step, added Carter, echoing St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, "our planet must finally obey the biblical injunction to 'follow after...
...those peacemaking things, he stressed, would be for the Soviets to agree to progress on the long-stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Carter did not want the Kremlin to think the U.S. would settle for less than a substantial, comprehensive arms limitation deal. "Our view," he cautioned, "is that a SALT agreement which just reflects the lowest common denominator that can be agreed upon will only create an illusion of progress and, eventually, a backlash against the entire arms control process." Answering Moscow's complaints about his determination to develop the cruise missile, he reiterated that the U.S. would...
...Israeli Premier's meeting this week with President Carter could be held before an audience, the event would be S.R.O. For at stake in this summit meeting is not only the future of the unique relationship between Israel and the U.S., but the prospects for any major progress toward a Middle East settlement...
Decent Lives. Still, there has been progress in fighting the disease. Says Dr. Morris Ziff, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas: "Most lupus victims can now expect to live reasonably decent lives." One reason: improved blood tests are letting doctors diagnose lupus earlier than ever. (As in Joan's case, the Wasserman test often turns up lupus quite accidentally.) Another reason: prompt detection has been accompanied by introduction of more effective treatments...