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...Rhodesian Front party; a dozen of them have already threatened to resign if he compromises the power of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites over 5 million Africans. It also remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate vote last week to lift the embargo on Rhodesian chrome might strengthen the hand of Rhodesia's hardliners...
...business or individuals merit first consideration in any economic-revitalization effort is a hard political reality. The quickest way to give a lagging economy a sharp stimulus is to inject new capital into industry and business for modernization and expansion. The slower, but potentially more lasting avenue is to strengthen consumer demand by aiding individuals. As it happens, the traditional sympathies of both parties neatly coincide with their election urgencies. Nixon wants a fast recovery to ensure his reelection. The Democrats want prosperity too, but are in considerably less of a hurry...
Heath's icy reply to Jack Lynch hardly seemed designed to encourage the Dublin government to cut off the illegal supply of arms and men that seeps across the 200-mile border between south and north. But it may have served to strengthen Ulster's Prime Minister Faulkner, who has become increasingly vulnerable to the demands of his party's hardliners. As former Home Minister William Craig told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast: "If Faulkner seems to make any more gestures of compromise, it'll bring the roof right down...
...each inning of violence seems worse than the one before, and another eruption would only strengthen the hand of the Protestant hard-liners like Paisley and Craig, who would be tempted to deal with the Catholics as Oliver Cromwell did. Since those with sufficient influence to succeed him are too far to the right to be acceptable to London or to the Catholics, Faulkner would be Ulster's last Prime Minister-and his successor would be a British proconsul appointed by London and backed by the British army...
Uneven Product. Over at Chicago Today, executives are trying to smile through the red ink. Editor-Publisher Lloyd Wendt, 63, who directed Today's transformation into a tabloid in 1969, is convinced that sluggish ad revenues will strengthen rapidly now that his paper has taken the afternoon circulation lead. Chicagoans' ears are numb from repetitive radio spots that trumpet: "Chicago Today! Writing worth reading ... and repeating...