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...economic sanctions against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western members had wanted a six-month cutoff provision in the measure, to give the South Africans an inducement to ease up on apartheid and repression, but they decided to accept the permanent embargo. "This will assuage us," remarked Ghana's ambassador, Frank Boaten, "but only for a while...
...from low-tax to high-tax states is a victimless crime-a free-enterprise way to bring down prices. Lawmakers see it differently. This week a law goes into effect in Ohio that makes "buttlegging" of as little as $60 worth of smokes a felony punishable by a minimum six-month prison term for the first offense. Ohio thus joins eight other states in recognizing that cigarette smuggling is no mere misdemeanor but a crime that drains their treasuries of badly needed revenue...
...middle of nowhere. For the past few weeks 70 Eastern Air Lines pilots have been shooting practice landings there to familiarize themselves with the A300 Airbus, a twin-engine, European-made wide-bodied jet. Eastern plans to introduce four of the 229-passenger, 600 m.p.h. planes for a six-month trial on its prime New York-Florida routes in time for the Christmas rush. If all goes well, says President Frank Borman, Eastern may buy as many as 50 Airbuses at $25 million each to replace aging Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas...
Last week the Cambridge City Council adopted the weakest of six proposals to slow the conversion trend. The decision represented an ineffectual move against one of the city's most pressing problems. By requesting the state legislature to order an immediate six-month stay on evictions of any elderly people whose apartments are slated for conversion, the council has skirted the issue and tried to offer an election-year appeasement to elderly voters, through a move conversion opponents consider an insult. Landlords and those who purchased condominiums because they cannot afford houses deserve some consideration, but strong action must nonetheless...
...PENTAGON has ended its six-month old program to "automatically" upgrade some 60,000 undesirable discharges received by Vietnam-era deserters, but figures show that only a fraction of those who had received non-honorable discharges had chosen to participate...