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...legislation requiring Senate confirmation of the director of the Office of Management and Budget and of the deputy director. Steelman led a successful fight last year to prevent construction of a $1.6 billion, ecologically damaging barge canal between Dallas and the Gulf of Mexico. Because his district has been redrawn and is now 60% Democratic, he faces a tough re-election fight...
...from an air-conditioned control center at Camp Wilson. Actually, the entire war, all its battles and the eventual outcome, had been programmed in advance by computer. But as each situation report came in from field umpires using an experimental "digital message entry system," maps were redrawn, arrows lengthened and air strikes scheduled...
SECURITY CONFERENCE. The Soviets want to end preparatory talks on European security late this month and hold a summit finale in September. They see a full-scale conference as an opportunity to make permanent all of those borders that were redrawn to the Soviets' advantage at the end of World War II. As Willy Brandt did when Brezhnev visited Bonn, President Nixon will insist that the success of the conference must hinge upon a free flow of ideas and people throughout Europe...
...Soviet concession on this issue, which would unquestionably influence the attitudes of other East bloc nations, as essential to the success of the European Security Conference in Helsinki. The Russians view the conference as a sort of World War II wrapup, affirming the "inviolability" of all borders that were redrawn to Soviet advantage at war's end. They have shown little interest in Brandt's broader aims, fearing that Communist ideology may be "contaminated" by exposure to Western thought. Brandt intends to put it as directly as possible to Brezhnev that detente cannot be built on cold...
When, if ever, might the European map begin to be redrawn along the lines that the regionalists envision? Some experimental steps have already been taken. The bulk of the loans granted to Italy by the Brussels-based European Investment Bank, whose funds come from the EEC countries, has been channeled into the Italian mezzogiorno-a model that might inspire other efforts at transnational cooperation. Still, there is little indication that Europe's central governments-a tribe unto themselves -are ready to yield significant power, whatever the case for a regional politics. They stick by not only De Gaulle...