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...either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston financial establishment...
Smoking Skeptics. The crusade is not universally popular in Mauriac. "I have never slept so badly," says Jacqueline Forgereau, a chain smoker who took the pledge. "I manage to swallow half a gallon of mineral water daily, but I can't stop eating. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." The most fervent denunciations of all have come from some of the town's six tobacconists, whose sales have dropped as much...
Seeking a scapegoat for high food prices, Nixon has pointed his finger at various unnamed "middlemen." The farmer, he declared, gets only about a third of the U.S. food dollar, while others-presumably packers, truckers, wholesalers, distributors and super-marketeers-swallow the rest. Nixon was being a bit casual with his statistics. In fact, the farmer gets 400 of the food dollar (see chart, page 22). He does even better on relatively unprocessed foods like meat, raw vegetables and fruit. Ranchers pocket about two-thirds of the retail price for beef, which accounted for the biggest chunk of the February...
...mandate. The Communists, who normally carry 20% of the national vote, will almost certainly say no to the treaties. But other segments of the anti-Gaullist opposition will be in a bind. Because they are already on record as favoring Common Market expansion, centrists and socialists may have to swallow their anti-Pompidou animus and vote...
Having forced oil companies to swallow two major price increases over the past year, the eleven nations that sit atop the world's rich pools of oil are now demanding a piece of the companies themselves. Their goal is "participation,", which is merely another way of describing partial, and probably increasing nationalization of the U.S. and European firms that drill in their territory. At a meeting in Beirut of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which ended last week, the largest consortium of oil companies, the Arabian American Oil Co., bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle...