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...SOREST LOSER. Olympian Mary Decker falling down and not letting up on Zola Budd...
...sorest point of all is pay. Typically, a middle-level officer with about 15 years experience earns $35,000, a Foreign Service recruit $16,000, a career ambassador $50,000. According to the American Foreign Service Association (A.F.S.A.), the gentlemanly union that represents the interests of U.S. diplomats, this salary scale is about 10% lower than that of the Federal Civil Service. To be sure, like other American Government employees abroad, diplomats also receive a housing allowance, a cost-of-living provision and access at some posts to certain duty-free goods, such as liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. But high...
...less of the British market, to increase quotas on imports of European skimmed milk, butter and cheese into Japan, and to line up more Japanese importers of processed meats and retailers of imported tobacco. Most encouraging to the Europeans, the Japanese also agreed to negotiations on shipbuilding, the sorest issue of all. In the first nine months of 1976, Japan grabbed 86% of all shipbuilding contracts awarded in industrialized countries. European shipbuilders claim that the Japanese can underbid them by 30% to 40% because the Japanese yards get hidden government subsidies...
...SOREST LOSERS: The Exorcist bunch, miming superiority to the whole business as crass commercial competitors kept walking off with the prizes that they felt their delicate little art film should have...
...squabbling, the sorest point of all is the status of "political prisoners." Despite the Paris settlement calling for the release of all "civilian internees," both sides are using their own vague definitions of when a nonmilitary enemy sympathizer becomes a political prisoner. Saigon says Hanoi holds 59,118 of them, while Hanoi says Saigon has more than 200,000. Whatever the true totals, neither side is ready to release political prisoners on the same schedule as the official P.O.W.s. Victims of torture on both sides, they languish in a legal never-never land, protected by neither the Paris Accords...