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...just want the U.S. to do its moral duty," declared Cuban President Fidel Castro, whose own sense of moral vision sometimes veers in strange directions. But last week in Havana, as he met with 75 mostly U.S.-based Cuban exile leaders, the dictator seemed to have something humanitarian in mind. He promised to release about 3,000 Cuban political prisoners currently languishing in his jails if the U.S. would agree to accept most of them as refugees. In addition, he pledged an easing of travel restrictions to bring together Cuban families separated by years of exile, a plan that Castro...
Autos. The road ahead is pitted with potholes, even though European automakers this year expect to produce 11 million vehicles, just under their 1973 record of 11.25 million. The most imminent threat comes from the Japanese, whose share of the Western European car market has jumped from .6% to 6% in the past ten years. The Japanese onslaught has also hurt European export sales, especially in the U.S. For the longer run, the U.S. automakers may pose a more formidable danger, now that they are making smaller, gasoline-sparing cars of the type that sell well in Europe...
...business?lock, stock and bauble. The buyer will be Avon Products, Inc., the door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like Vanessa Redgrave's. In fact, money talked. In a lopsided swap, Avon offered $45 worth of its stock for each share of Tiffany, which had been hovering at $19 over the counter. Hoving owns 18% of the Tiffany shares...
What disturbs some parents most is the fear that their children will make fewer friends because they stay at home. "Yes, she's a little lonely," admits a father whose eight-year-old daughter is learning at home, "and in a few years that could be more of a problem." John Holt bristles when the issue of social skills is raised. Says he: "If I had no other reason to keep kids out of school, the social life would be enough. In all the schools I know anything about, the social life of the children is meanspirited, competitive, exclusive, status...
That timetable is highly controversial. For one thing, it would knock out of the running as the earliest hominid, or manlike creature, a favorite contender of many paleontologists, the small and apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...