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Hicks surrounded herself in the campaign with pols left over from the old 9th, toughened battle-scarred veterans who still remember the district as John McCormack's stomping ground. After last week's defeat, these wily campaign vets may have to-scrap their playbook, and borrow a few pages from Joe Moakley...
What had driven Washington and Hanoi so close to a final agreement after so many years of stalemate? One big factor was the U.S.'s new relationships with Moscow and Peking, which no longer find it in their interests to duel with Washington over a scrap of Southeast Asian rice land. Nixon believes that his decision to resume full-scale bombing of North Viet Nam and mine its harbors was also "very, very important." It is hard to measure how badly Hanoi has been hurt by these measures. But it seems undeniable that the failure of Moscow and Peking...
...throng, Eleanor drew herself up in front of the youth and asked him where he had got the poster. "I made it myself," he announced proudly, having no idea who she was. "Well, it's inaccurate," snapped Eleanor. "He only wants to cut defense waste." Pulling a scrap of paper from her shoulder bag, she asked for the boy's name and address and promised to send him some explanatory literature about McGovern's stance on the issues. "By the way," she added almost as an afterthought, "I'm Mrs. George McGovern...
Obviously it is too late to scrap plans for the Library and return the Square area to Cambridge residents. But at least the parties trying to find some solution to the Library's attendant problems can employ more judgment and forethought than that displayed by Kanavos and the City last week...
Nevertheless, the prospect for any quick surge of U.S. exports to Japan remains dim. The Japanese eagerly buy American industrial raw materials-coal, steel scrap and lumber-but the obstacles they put in the way of foreign manufactured and consumer goods are still high. The average Japanese tariffs on finished consumer goods have been lowered from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports...