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...jitters last week, another period of tension of the kind that has afflicted it since last spring. The basic reason was the absence of any fresh movement toward a peace settlement, and the reluctance of the principals to negotiate boldly toward achieving that end. The symptoms were a spate of new incidents of border righting between the Israelis and the fedayeen and a disturbing rise in the reckless rhetoric...
Brain Trust. With the legislative machinery in more disciplined order, Democrats hope to pass a spate of bills that have been bottled up or ignored: mandatory wage-price controls, national health insurance, a major public works program to relieve unemployment, tax reform including a scaling down of the oil-depletion allowance, an export monitoring system that will more effectively prevent the sale abroad of commodities in short supply at home, and the revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an agency created by President Herbert Hoover in 1932 to help business survive the Depression...
...intensified program to prevent the thaw from reaching their own people. Ever since the Brezhnev-Nixon meetings began in Moscow two years ago, Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent...
...after a long illness; in Northamptonshire, England. Educated at Sandhurst, the Duke interrupted his military career to assume princely duties after his eldest brother Edward, Duke of Windsor, gave up his throne in 1936 to marry American Divorcee Wallis Simpson. For his brother King George VI, Gloucester undertook a spate of ceremonial chores and overseas good-will missions; he also indulged his passion for riding, fox hunting and polo. After serving as a high-ranking liaison officer in World War II, he spent a few years as an unpopular Governor General of Australia. Following the coronation of his niece Queen...
...Kissinger himself celebrated the end of hostilities in the Israeli capital by unexpectedly planting an exuberant buss on the cheek of retiring Premier Golda Meir. Recovering her composure, Mrs. Meir chided the Secretary of State, "I didn't think that you kissed women too"?a reference to the spate of pictures showing Kissinger being hugged by Arab leaders...