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...Benelux countries. These tactics left almost every nation in Western Europe on the outs with him. But not the Soviet Union, which is perhaps just the way le grand Charles wants things this week. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is due in Paris on "an important visit" to discuss ticklish topics like Viet Nam and the German question, and where else can the Soviets find such a free and equal nation to fraternize with...
...John Dickinson of Delaware, a member of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, raised a ticklish question relating to the matter of succession in the event of a President's disability. "What is the extent of the term 'disability,' " asked Dickinson, "and who is to be the judge of it?" The question was swiftly referred to a committee - where it stayed...
...administrators get a good line on teaching ability merely by attending a few lectures? Most professors consider this a form of snooping. William Fidler, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, doubts that many teachers would stand for it. Such classroom monitoring, he says, "is a very ticklish problem." But many a layman, openly and constantly evaluated in his life's work, feels entitled to wonder...
Totality is bankrupt because it relieves the Faculty of any responsibility for Gen Ed and would allow students to evade requirements with inappropriate courses. Selectivity would be hard to effect for both political reasons--it would be ticklish business to shunt aside any department's introductory course--and philosophical ones--to exclude some courses and not others would involve establishing criteria for decision which no advocates of the distribution scheme are willing to set forth...
...Another ticklish problem was what to do about the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co., which has been operating the rich La Brea y Pariañs basin for 50 years under a series of contracts that many Peruvians consider unfair and illegal. Last year Belaúnde's government canceled the contracts amid leftist cries for an outright takeover. Belaúnde refused, and last week he was hammering out the final details of a new contract that will keep I.P.C. in Peru but give the government a greater share of profits...