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This drive achieved an initial and partial success yesterday. The United States, bowing to Japanese and British pressure, announced it was proposing to other countries which restrict export of strategic goods to Communist countries a partial relaxation of the limitations on trade with Peiping, combined with a certain tightening of restrictions on trade with the Soviet bloc in Europe...
...their No. 1 goal-a Montreal-to-Los Angeles route-the Dutch made an unprecedented complaint to Secretary of State Dulles, tartly announced that they will shortly renew this demand. Less than 24 hours after the department's announcement, the Senate also noted its displeasure ; it voted to restrict presidential authority over international airline agreements in protest against the grant. (A similar Senate proposal died in the House last year...
...gathered around their huge, elliptical conference table in Washington to survey the damage and see what they could do. "There are too many people," said the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, "who will use this current expose of Teamsters' corruption to exploit their own purposes-to try to restrict the entire labor movement." The Electrical Workers' Jim Carey added: "It is absolutely necessary that we denounce and renounce such characters or we will pay a terrible price for permitting ourselves to be associated in the public eye with these phonies and criminals." Summed up George Meany, A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and money to training for the civil service if he knows that he can never reach a position of real responsibility. To restrict policy-making to political appointees would automatically remove the incentive which motivates capable men and women to spend years working their way up through the lower echelons of the government. The immediate result would be to decrease both the quantity and quality of applications to the civil service...
...Council's action, "It is quite proper for the Student Council to act as a court of appeal for inter-group disputes and internal disputes as well." He emphasized, however that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities--which will consider the problem--it is no way bound to restrict itself to acting on the Council's evidence. It may investigate itself and, in general, do as it sees fit in the matter...