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...total of Jews permitted to leave the Soviet Union since Jan. 1 is 17,000. The figure is expected to be about 50,000 by the end of the year, compared with 30,000 in 1978 and 16,700 in 1977. Moreover, bureaucratic hassling of Soviet Jews who apply for exit visas has declined dramatically. It may be that the Soviets now would simply be glad to get rid of the problem. By letting some dissidents leave, U.S. officials suggest, the Soviets can eliminate them as focal points for unrest. Similar reasoning may have helped persuade the Kremlin to permit...
...flow of Soviet Jewish refugees has varied greatly. Fewer than 10,000 were allowed by Moscow to emigrate during the entire period 1961-71. That number soared to more than 30,000 in 1972 and 1973, then dropped sharply, then rose again last summer. This year's total may reach...
Kennedy has revised his strategies in other areas. "Proposition 13 was a watershed for us too," said one of his aides. Despite the big hoots he made every other week against Jimmy Carter's budget cuts, Kennedy accepted the President's overall spending totals, including the $29 billion deficit. He saw the political realities and the appeal of reduced spending, like everybody else. But like that of no one else in U.S. politics, Kennedy's appeal transcends ideology and so his new fiscal posture has caused little change in his superliberal reputation. His disagreements with Carter over...
...attempts at neutrality have worked reasonably well, but at quite a price. The growing warfare has caused Botswana to create its own 2,000-man defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month...
...most visible part of the Carlson empire is the Radisson Hotel Group, which last year generated revenues of $90 million. There are 19 hotels with a total of 7,139 rooms, and Carlson hopes to expand by 1,000 rooms a year. He opened a resort hotel a year ago in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the Radisson Oasis, built near the Pyramids outside Cairo, will be finished by the end of 1979. Farther afield, Carlson is negotiating with the Chinese to build a hotel in Peking. He has a particularly active period of growth planned for two recently acquired restaurant chains...