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...stranglehold tightened last week on Biafra, where the secessionist forces of Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu are encircled by the federal Nigerian army. Only three cities remain in Biafran control: Umuahia, Owerri and Aba. Of these three, by far the most vital to Ojukwu is Aba, a trade and rail center of 100,000 before the war and Biafra's provisional capital. It was at Aba that Nigeria's 3rd Division, moving steadily north from Port Harcourt, aimed its assault...
...substantive act, the congress took the first step toward breaking N.S.A. into two corporate groups: one would retain N.S.A.'s tax-exempt status and carry out its present "educational" functions; the other would pay taxes and remain free to engage in open lobbying for legislation approved by N.S.A.'s annual congress. But the more significant message of the meeting was its renewed evidence that campus disorders will probably increase rather than abate in the coming school year. As outgoing President Schwartz sees it, the more moderate students are so discouraged that they may drop out of student movements...
...approved by the SEC, the fee cuts could cost brokers some $150 million of their $2.5-billion-a-year commission income. Much of that money would then remain in the coffers of big institutional investors, indirectly enriching thousands of mutual-fund shareholders and pension-fund contributors. Brokers should be able to bear the loss: soaring trading volume has deluged Wall Street with profits. Last year the net earnings of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. brokerage house, jumped 25% to $54.6 million, as its operating revenue, mostly from commissions, climbed to $369 million. Profits at Goodbody & Co. rose...
...furor over soaring rents involves only one-third of New York's 2,100,000 privately owned apartments. The rest remain subject to rent control, to which New York (alone among major U.S. cities) has clung since World War II. Landlords of rent-controlled apartments are every bit as unhappy as tenants of uncontrolled units. Squeezed by rising costs for taxes, labor, maintenance and anti-pollution equipment demanded by the city, increasing numbers of owners are simply abandoning structurally sound, though rundown, controlled buildings. By owners' estimates, some 12,000 buildings containing 350,000 apartments have thus been...
...help subfertile couples to have normal babies. Now he has come to believe, as have other embryologists and physiologists, that an unusually high incidence of abnormal births may result from couples' using the rhythm method for birth control and miscalculating the date of ovulation. An ovum may remain fertile for at least two days, and sperm for about 36 hours. Cross says that in the first half of the ovulation cycle, a stale sperm may fertilize a normal egg, and in the second half, a normal sperm may fertilize a stale egg. Either way, he believes, the stale component...