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...scarcely a crucial zone of U.S. interest. The congressional move, however, certainly further weakened the U.S. postures in the world and raised serious questions about whether the present Congress is willing to allow the Administration any kind of latitude in its foreign operations. Part of the opposition professed to quarrel with the covert nature of U.S. help to Angola. But in the world as it exists, some capacity for secret operations (under due congressional oversight) is essential. Besides, even had Angolan aid been made public from the start...
...story. From his Class Day speech last year and his news conference a few weeks ago, Harvard students are familiar with the boyish, disarming nature of Ali, the kind of innocence cum street smartness that allowed him to utter the simple yet profound statement that "I got no quarrel with them Viet Cong." Ali is able to put this style into his writing as well...
...gang he is pursuing pauses long enough on its way to a gold robbery to murder her father, a missionary to an Indian village. Nothing will do, of course, but that she must join forces with Rooster in order to help avenge her father's death. The pair quarrel along a meandering trail. She tries to reform him or at least get him to take a bath and ease up on the corn likker. He grouses about the talky ways into which her moral fervor leads her. In the end, needless to say, mutual respect bordering on romantic attachment...
What finally brought the quarrel to a head was the government's latest pay proposal for health service doctors below consultant rank, most of whom are full-time employees of the state. Holding to the Labor government's current ceiling on wages-no raises of more than $12 a week-Castle proposed a formula that reduced the physicians' basic work week to 44 hours but at the same time altered the overtime policy so that the doctors who worked the longest hours received the lowest proportional pay. Negotiators for the junior doctors reluctantly accepted the offer...
Although nobody wants to quarrel with energy savings; there were some grumblings last week when Dean Rosovsky announced that a comprehensive energy shut-down that can save $150,000 must include the libraries, museums and athletic facilities...