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SAVE AMERICA, BUY AMERICA. Scores of delegates lined up at a telegraph booth to send wires supporting the proposed Foreign Trade and Investment Act of 1972. That bill would cut back tax advantages for U.S. corporations with plants overseas and set up a commission to draft a quota system aimed at keeping at 1965-69 levels any imports that start to win a sizable share of the U.S. market. As for President Nixon's 10% surcharge on foreign goods. United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel has called it "only a baby step in the right direction...
...keep going at its current level. On paper, his estimate of the total wealth of the 48 million-member church is impressive. He calculates the combined assets of U.S. dioceses and religious orders at $34.2 billion, which is only slightly less than the worth of American Telephone and Telegraph. But Catholic assets consist mostly of churches and schools, which are costly to run and consume income instead of producing...
Minnie Magazine's technical counterpart is Communications Manager John Striker, who during the past 18 years has helped expand the network of Teletype, telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities that serves Time Inc.; since 1962, he has added Bangkok, Singapore, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi and Beirut to the list of bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need...
...advances have made their jobs easier, Striker and Magazine still encounter calamities. Sunspots adversely affect radio circuits, and fishing trawlers periodically slice transoceanic cables. Heavy September rains in the New York area drowned out most of our private teleprinter lines. Sometimes the gap is bridged by switching to conventional telegraph ("overheading," in our argot). On those rare occasions when all lines fail, we fall back on manpower. The communications crush during the Attica prison riot got so bad at one point that some material for last week's cover story had to be flown in from Buffalo by courier...
...from Ulster's Catholics (who constitute about one-third of Northern Ireland's 1,500,000 population). He announced that 219 of the Catholics who were interned without trial last month would be held indefinitely, while a mere 14 would be released. "Detention," declared the independent Belfast Telegraph, "has driven a massive wedge between the two sections of the community...