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...likely to promote a variation of the existing amnesty program, under which rebels who relinquish their weapons are offered protection and the right to run in next year's legislative elections. "But if they are after part of the government, they can forget it," says Oscar Reyes, pri vate secretary to the new president. "We worked for it, and if they want some of it they will have to do the same...
...Washington, Carter met on Monday and Tuesday with the National Security Council to review U.S. and Sovi et military strength. At lunch with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on Wednesday, the President got some pri vate advice on deal ing with Brezhnev. Schmidt also lobbied in Washington for ratification of the SALT treaty. At a private dinner with six Senators and four Congressmen who are undecided about SALT, he warned that rejection of the treaty would seriously set back détente, which he called "vital for a rational world." Schmidt also spoke strongly in favor of the treaty...
...nation illustrates the bleak prospects so strikingly as India, which some what ironically has long been an ear nest champion of the Arabs' political cause. India's newest five-year plan, which calls for government and pri vate investment of $71 billion in industrialization, assumes that the price of oil will rise only to $4.75 per bbl. by 1979, the last year of the plan. In fact, the price already has shot up to $9 per bbl. Oil imports had been taking 10% to 11% of the foreign currency that India earns from exports; now the bill...
...being forced to pay the real price of in tegration while assorted social planners and liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...
...scene was The Factory, that pri vate nightclub just east of Beverly Hills off Santa Monica Boulevard founded by Davis, Salinger, Peter Lawford, Anthony Newley, Paul Newman and four...