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...Soviets had hoped to use the occasion to formally expel the Chinese from the Communist movement. Their aim has been blocked by West and East European parties that have displayed defiance of the Soviets by refusing to go along with this plan. Now the Russians apparently have tried to sidestep the entire issue by asserting that the Maoists are no longer Communists at all and thus not an issue for debate at the world conference...
...Italy, yet the state-run E.N.I, monopoly became a world petroleum power under the late Enrico Mattei and his successor, Eugenio Cefis. Mattei bought crude from the Soviets, developed natural-gas resources in the Po Valley, and proudly declared that in building E.N.I., "I broke 8,000 laws." To sidestep Cyclopean bureaucrats-with their time-consuming rules about building permits and their endless paper work-he laid the pipelines at night, while the officials slept...
...Responsibility. Numbered accounts are particularly handy for circumventing U.S. securities laws. To get around the restrictions on trading by "insiders," for example, corporate officers sometimes buy or sell stock in their own companies through Swiss banks. Other U.S. investors use the banks to sidestep margin requirements. The Government estimates that all foreign banks -in Panama, Nassau and West Germany as well as in Switzerland-account for at least 8% of the transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. In singling out Switzerland, U.S. officials seemed most disturbed about their lack of precise knowledge about all that may be going...
That was the old and perhaps unanswerable question faced last week by the Israeli Supreme Court. Understandably, the court preferred to sidestep the issue rather than try to give a firm answer, but the case that raised the problem did so in a particularly interesting...
...rights. In Steel's opinion, it is wrong to answer that the court has set the pace of racial progress for the rest of the Government. Instead, he contends, "a cautious Supreme Court has waltzed to the music of the white majority-one step forward, one step backward, sidestep, sidestep...