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...fabric of negotiations with the Soviet Union--which we strongly support--has unfortunately had limited success in winning restraint. President Ford's abandonment of the term 'detente' clearly shows a recognition that the more extreme claims made for changes in the superpowers' relationship were quite unrealistic. Stability is disturbed and tension increased if the Soviet Union makes geo-political gains through its support of wars of national liberation, by the use of surrogates...
...uses it with devastating success. Of 150 suits filed in the past half-dozen years, FRAC has won all but four-and three of those losses generated legislative changes in favor of FRAC's causes, while the last may yet be won on appeal. The past few months have been especially rewarding for Pollack and his team. In May FRAC got a judicial order directing the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to stop blocking $37.5 million in food benefits for 63,000 elderly citizens. Then came a $125 million victory over the Department of Agriculture, which had been...
...victims of our own success," says Douglas Roby, a U.S. member of the IOC. "We have created the greatest forum in the world for political statements. What happens on our stage attracts more attention than what happens at the United Nations." Television, which estimates the audience for the Montreal Olympics at more than a billion, has been a major factor. Munich demonstrated fully the shock value of the Olympics as the stage for global drama. The Black September terrorists who attacked the Israeli team in the Olympic Village knew their act would command the world's attention as none...
Waiting and Weighing. One big reason for Carter's acceptability to many businessmen is his success in resisting political pigeonholing. Allied Chemical Chairman (and former Commerce Secretary) John Connor, an early Carterite, finds the Georgian "somewhat on the liberal side. I think we need a liberal President to work with the Democratic Congress." Says Bell & Howell Chairman Donald Frey, a Republican: "I have a gut feeling that Carter is fundamentally conservative...
...success of The Great Railway Bazaar (1915), Theroux's engaging travelogue by train, should create a wider audience for this novel than the author has enjoyed in the past. He deserves it. At 35, Theroux is that rarest of beasts, a young writer who is getting better with each book. Paul Gray