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...complex. Indications are that the Russian exodus is much larger than Western watchers had first anticipated. It now seems likely that up to 90% of the 15,000 to 20,000 Soviet men (and women, in communications units) stationed in Egypt may leave. The first departures were not without rancor. At least one fight between Soviet and Egyptian soldiers was reported; newsmen attempting to take pictures of the exiting Russians had their cameras smashed...
Meanwhile, relations between the Arab lands-never harmonious at best -were severely strained by the assassination of Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell in Cairo. The United Nations was also alive with rancor as debate got under way on an Egyptian-sponsored attempt to force Israel to reopen talks under U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring...
Toward Phase III. For all that, the debate and even rancor of the past three months have produced a program close to the one long urged on Nixon by many economists, including a majority of TIME'S Board of Economists. "It is a good, constructive and reasonable start," says Walter Heller, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers. The biggest question of Phase II is whether the panels of men named by the President to administer his plan can convince businessmen, workers and consumers that the controls are being handled strictly yet equitably. If they...
...atmosphere of near-despair among faculty and students. The best students now avoid the GSD, those who are there account for an inordinately high drop-out rate; the best faculty now avoid the GSD because, as one senior professor who bailed out last spring put it, "there is more rancor and bitterness at that School than I have seen in 22 years of teaching...
...Japanese surrender deals a further blow to the fading political fortunes of Sato and his pro-American policies. His party can probably stay in power, but much rancor against the U.S. will remain. About the best that can be said of the settlement is that it frees both U.S. and Japanese officials to concentrate on weightier matters-revaluation of the Japanese yen, for example, and removal of the U.S. 10% import surcharge on all foreign goods. Americans and Japanese can only hope that on those issues both sides will have more of a feel for the other's sensibilities...