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Several board members agreed that the union's demands were justifiable but would cost $53 million per year and, as Board Member Mrs. Louis Malis bluntly put it, "there is no money." The board offered only to renew the present contract for six months. After 20 fruitless negotiating sessions, the teachers struck. Efforts soon followed to set up emergency schools. The teachers union itself helped organize 38 of them in churches, storefronts and library branches, enough to handle about 4,000 pupils...
Shelton H. Davis, lecturer in Social Anthropology, said yesterday that the Anthropology Department did not renew his contract because it disapproves of dissenting approaches to the subject...
CONTROLS. The President will ask Congress to renew his authority to maintain wage-price controls before that power lapses April 30, but he wants some still undisclosed changes. An ideological free-marketeer, Nixon has never been comfortable with controls. Neither have his primary economic aides, notably Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They would clearly like to loosen the system, perhaps by exempting more retailers, landlords and small-to medium-size companies. Most important, however, high Administration officials aim soon to relax the limits on profit-margin increases, which have infuriated many...
...bludgeon the Vietnamese into giving concessions that Henry Kissinger could not win at the conference table. Nixon obviously felt that the Communists were stalling. On Dec. 14, after Kissinger left Paris, Nixon sent a cable to Hanoi. He warned that unless serious bargaining began within 72 hours, he would renew bombing north of the 20th parallel. When no reply came, he kept his word. The White House believes that the North Vietnamese knew the risk all along. On Dec. 3, the day before the last round of talks between Kissinger and Le Due Tho began, children were evacuated from Hanoi...
...brought a hail of phone calls to OTP offices in Washington from worried station owners. They quickly learned that the proposed legislation offers them blandishments as well. The bill extends the duration of FCC licenses from three to five years and makes life easier for local stations at license-renewal time. Competing bids for a station's license, for example, would be entertained only after the Federal Communications Commission had revoked or failed to renew it. Out would go the current FCC criteria stipulating the proportion of generally unprofitable news and public-service broadcasting a station must carry...