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Brezhnev's thorniest selling problem turned on his desire for most-favored-nation status for Russia. That status was part of the Soviet-American trade treaty signed last October and would mean tariff cuts of 50% or more on Soviet imports into the U.S. But 77 Senators and 284 Representatives have backed legislation to deny M.F.N. to any nation that limits free emigration. Their chief concern is the plight of Soviet Jews who want to leave Russia...
...talks over with her father how to handle the thorniest questions, and she has faced down more than one interviewer with the icy calm and official poise only a politician's-perhaps only a President's-daughter can so effectively command...
...this Fall's thorniest issues came to a head at this week's Faculty meeting...
...cautious national mood was seen most clearly in New York City, where a new three-year contract was negotiated for 60,000 teachers. The thorniest issues were nonmonetary demands by the teachers-among them, that the school board hire 6,000 guards to patrol the city's public schools, in which reported crimes and acts of violence rose from 333 in 1970 to 580 last year...
...three short months Bumpers managed to accomplish a reorganization of the governmental bureaucracy, a removal of use-tax exemptions for utilities, an increase in the cigarette and personal income tax, and legislation giving home-rule powers to the cities. He also made inroads into two of the state's thorniest problems, gaining a pay increase of $900 for teachers and eliciting new funds for prison construction and rehabilitation...