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There is also pressure on Israel to keep Kissinger's negotiating cycle going. Mrs. Meir admitted that "the Yom Kippur War must leave its mark on our concepts, our actions, our way of life in every sphere." Underscoring her point, the government distributed a booklet, The Fallen and the Missing in the Yom Kippur War, containing the names of all 2,552 Israeli soldiers killed in action in October; the first 350,000 copies printed were quickly gone, and 150,000 more ordered. And in the Knesset, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir set a price tag of $7.14 billion...
...second half brought a new Yale strategy from coach Joe Vancisin to replace the shattered press. Setting up on defense, the Elis concentrated on speeding up their offense, aiming to work the sphere into their big men--Jim Cartmell, Mike Baskauskas and Rollin Chippey--for the inside shots...
This French obstinacy, reports TIME'S chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers, has little to do with energy: "Rather, the French intransigence reflects a general frustration with France's diminishing role in the world at large, and its frantic efforts to carve out a new sphere of influence." France, Rademaekers reports, is worried that smoother U.S. relations with the Soviet Union presage a deal whereby the superpowers would tacitly divide the world into areas of influence, with the U.S. getting Western Europe and France left unconsulted. Also, France is riled by its lessening power in the Common Market, where...
Watergate has harmed business's image. "I shudder to think what a public-opinion survey taken today would score on business motives and integrity. Now on top of all this, the energy crisis raises doubts as to how good business is in planning its own sphere." Goodman also criticized retailers for selling shoddy products and ignoring employees' needs to find meaning in their work. If business is again to become "a creative force in our lives," Goodman concluded, it must learn that "what's good for people is good for business...
...lent to the Yugoslav Partisans--commanded by Josip Tito, a Croatian Communist--who led the only active resistance to the Nazis. The United States and the other western powers seemed prepared to accept Soviet domination of Yugoslavia, and the Russians considered it part of their East European sphere of influence. The Soviet secret police recruited Yugoslav citizens, and Russia planned to integrate Yugoslavia into its economic empire. When Yugoslav delegates to a meeting on joint mineral companies asked for help in industrializing--Yugoslavia had just adopted an almost impossibly ambitious Five-Year Plan--the head of the Soviet delegation told...