Word: reform
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...internal Soviet matter, a combination of genuine humanitarianism, old cold war reflexes and a high regard for Jewish votes and political contributions combined into an extraordinary movement to block M.F.N. Last week the House handed the Administration a major defeat on detente. In passing the much-needed Trade Reform Bill, the House, by an overwhelming vote of 298 to 106, tacked on an amendment prohibiting M.F.N. to any country that denies its people the right to emigrate freely. Worse from the Administration's point of view, the House passed a similar amendment that denies U.S. Government-supported export credits...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger led the fight within the Administration to delay passage of the Trade Reform Bill as long as the amendments were attached. Kissinger has argued that placing these kinds of conditions on Soviet trade amounts to an attempt to "transform the domestic structure" of the Soviet Union. He is worried that the amendments could hurt the chances of Soviet cooperation in maintaining the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, and he feels that secret diplomacy will be more effective than public pressure in persuading the Soviets to liberalize their emigration policies. Either because...
...federal and state licensing procedures, but doesn't draw any conclusions or recommend any course of action for Harvard. In consulting the experts, the ACSR seems to be looking for someone to tell it who is right about the plant, AP&L or the Arkansas community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), the group fighting the plant...
ACSR members have also received a second report on the AP&L plant, prepared by Steven L. Kest '74 of Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the plant's major opponent. The ACSR took no action on that report...
...Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) asked Harvard to use its shareholder influence to ensure that Arkansas Power and Light install extra pollution controls on the plant and offer to compensate farmers for damage the plant's sulfur dioxide emissions might cause to their crops...