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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ongoing Dialogue. Kissinger's speech was an important step in keeping the dialogue going that Washington initiated with the Third World at the U.N. last fall. Still, it fell short of meeting the proposals the Group of 77, as UNCTAD'S working caucus is called, drafted at its February meeting in Manila...
Bitter new fighting erupted in Lebanon late last week after Lebanese parliamentarians braved mortar fire from leftist forces to elect a new President to replace Suleiman Franjieh, the embattled Christian leader who two weeks ago conditionally agreed to step down. Fran-jieh's replacement had been a major leftist condition for negotiations to end the 13-month-old civil war between Christians and Moslems, which has taken 16,000 lives. But fearing that Elias Sarkis, the Syrian-backed candidate, would win the election, Moslem forces launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the voting...
Harvard has cleverly and opportunistically brushed aside the myriad ideological differences which exist between many members of the Harvard community and the Iranian government and has justified its potentially embarrassing venture as a step in the direction of enlightenment in a country drastically in need of openness...
...Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania foresees pretax corporate profits running at a record annual rate of $168.4 billion in this year's last three months (see chart). If that happens, the recovery may gain even more steam. Higher profits give corporations the money to step up spending on new plant and equipment, which so far has been dragging...
...fact that the Government agencies work in the Middle East indicates that "they must be complying with the Arab boycott." In its court papers, Bechtel asserts that the acts of these agencies "are as much a declaration of law and policy" as the Justice Department suit. The next step is hearings in a federal district court in San Francisco, which every U.S. company-not to mention Government agencies and Jewish organizations-will watch with interest...