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...controls to keep out unwanted dollars. Germany has announced an especially tough set of rules sharply restricting the ability of Germans to borrow money abroad and of foreign countries to invest in Germany. Though such controls are supposed to be temporary, there is a natural tendency to extend and tighten them with each monetary crisis. Former German Economics and Finance...
What were the North Vietnamese up to? They might have been hoping to appease the worried Viet Cong by tying the P.O.W. release to the political-prisoner problem. They might have simply decided to agree to no more efforts to tighten the agreement. In any case, Nixon was furious at the P.O.W. reversal and evidently convinced that Hanoi believed he had little room to maneuver. Nixon summoned Kissinger home, interrupting the talks...
Bullish. At the same time that the President is paring the budget (see THE ECONOMY), he is planning to tighten organization. John Ehrlichman's domestic council will be restructured, because it has been too much of a burden for one man. Ehrlichman himself is not in disfavor, but under a new setup, additional White House aides will be recruited to oversee the bureaucracy. Foremost among them is Frederic Malek, 35, a West Point and Harvard Business School graduate who was recruited by Finch to help run HEW, subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel...
...There seemed to be a sudden ripping of my muscles." Briggs said here yesterday. "Then I felt them tighten up in a matter of seconds...
...heads into his second term confined by a fiscal squeeze that will sharply delimit domestic policy. So far he has issued no major requests for new initiatives from his departments to improve on his disappointing first-term domestic record. Indeed, only one instruction has gone out: prepare to tighten your belts...