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...prices. In his first major speech since assuming office on April 5, Callaghan argued that a refusal by the unions to go along with the government's plan would mean "more unfairness, higher prices and more jobs lost." The government has been especially encouraged by the relative success of the current pay policy. When the program took effect last August, inflation was galloping ahead at an annual rate of 26%; today it is 13%. But if the government is to achieve its goal of slowing inflation to a rate of 9% or less by March, a second year...
...reorganize the workings of international trade. Some of the proposals are patently impractical, and the U.S. is determined to oppose the "Manila Declaration" pretty much down the line. But UNCTAD Secretary General Gamani Corea, 50, an Oxford Ph.D. in economics from Sri Lanka, would view the conference as a success if it can produce agreement on just two subjects: easing the LDCs' crippling burden of debt, and stabilizing world raw-materials prices...
...divergent ideas, a fragile climate of cooperation exists in practice between the rich and poor countries: both genuinely want to make UNCTAD IV a success. The stakes go beyond economics. As Corea warns, the potential "frustration and failure" of the poor countries are not healthy for world peace...
...mention the O.P. (Other Paper, i.e., the Post), and the Fun Couple (Bradlee and his roommate-reporter, Sally Quinn). Bradlee has said he would fire any Post staffer caught whispering to The Ear ("I'd consider it a conflict of interest"), but O.P. items keep coming. The only success Bradlee has had in plugging The Ear came last winter, when Star Editor James Bellows, who dreamed up the feature and watches over it carefully, wanted to run a column to which the Post had rights. Bradlee assented, provided The Ear not mention the Fun Couple for a month. Exactly...
...Argento's eighth opera, and as fine as any ever written by an American. Its success is an appropriate sequel to the Pulitzer Prize he won last year for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. He is a rarity among composers in that he knew nothing about music until age 14 (when he read a book about Gershwin), and did not begin piano lessons until 16. Three years later he was a piano major at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. The first summer he read the letters of Mozart. Recalls Argento...