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AFAR-REACHING trade agreement is about to be signed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Pens are poised, smiles are set-but wait! There is a last-minute snag. By vote of the Politboro, the Russians refuse to sign until the U.S. agrees to integrate all its public schools. This is a matter of principle with the Russians; they will not budge. The American public is outraged. As if busing was not bad enough, to bus on Communist command! Just what anti-busers said all along: it's a Communist plot. Negotiations break down...
...snag came after Air Force General John Lavelle admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that he ordered the falsification of records of unauthorized bombing missions while under Abrams' command in Viet Nam. Lavelle was demoted to lieutenant general and forced to retire for his cavalier transgressions. In testimony given before the committee, he told Congressmen that he thought Abrams might have known about at least some of the illegal air strikes (TIME, June 26). But he added that he was "positive" Abrams knew nothing of the false reports that Lavelle ordered filed by airmen who took part...
THUS, in an interview in the current LIFE granted shortly before his campaign struck its first serious snag, George McGovern peered ahead somewhat apocalyptically at the difficulties he sensed might face him along the road to Miami Beach. Then last week the Democratic Party's Credentials Committee voted to deprive McGovern of 151 of the 271 delegates he had captured in California's winner-take-all primary last month. Instead of having a virtually unbeatable first-ballot arsenal, the South Dakotan suddenly had his delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below...
...Cornelia Wallace herself would make the perfect stand-in if George's convalescence will not permit him to get around (see box). It would hardly be a novel solution for Wallace, who ran his first wife Lurleen for Governor of Alabama when he ran into a state constitutional snag about succeeding himself...
...ceremony if and when the President visits Moscow later this month. They will probably have two documents to sign. One is a full-fledged treaty, already agreed upon, limiting the number of defensive ABMS, or anti-ballistic missiles, that each side may install. The second, barring any last-minute snag, will be an executive agreement setting informal ceilings on offensive strategic missiles until the SALT negotiators can come up with a formal pact. The major points of the two documents...