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...funds for new weaponry for Saigon, increasing the current $700 million already appropriated for 1975. Proponents of the request will surely argue that Saigon's shortage of ammunition and aviation fuel seriously hurt its cause in Phuoc Binh and will weaken its defense of other Communist targets. Administration spokesmen predicted that some emergency funds would be approved, but the heavily Democratic Congress, already preoccupied by recession, the oil crisis, and the confrontation in the Middle East, is bound to be reluctant to come once again to the aid of beleaguered South Viet...
...reconciliation, the Vatican last week made public a new set of guidelines to improve relations between Roman Catholics and Jews. Despite the document's amicable intentions, its initial reception was lukewarm. Jewish leaders criticized it for omissions or what they perceived as overtones of Catholic evangelism, and Vatican spokesmen found themselves on the defensive...
...time of the earlier gift, Harvard spokesmen asked Lippmann why he had chosen Yale over his alma mater...
...agreement to turn over the papers to Yale came as a surprise to Harvard library officials at the time. The only explanation ever officially offered by spokesmen for Lippmann was that Yale had asked him for the collection first...
...container industries. The banned flip-top cans are by far the most popular of beverage containers. Indeed, they seem to have a direct role in boosting consumption; since this type of can was introduced in 1959, per capita consumption of soft drinks and beer has risen by 33%. Industry spokesmen claim that Oregon's law not only threatens the growth of their business but also hikes costs. The sturdy returnable bottles that the law requires are twice as expensive as thin-walled "oneway" containers. And the empties must be shipped to bottlers (at a cost of 3.5ç each...