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Embattled again on his war policy, Nixon could use the new Viet Nam outcry to speed up disengagement by the U.S., and not risk the wrath of conservatives if the South Vietnamese government should later prove incapable of carrying the fight alone. He has promised to announce a new withdrawal schedule this week, and is expected to increase the pace to at least 15,000 men a month, some 2,500 over the current rate. That would reduce troop strength in Viet Nam to about 50,000 by the middle of next year. Whether that will satisfy the renewed yearning...
...Francisco. The firm's manager, Charles Caito, says that his men took only 109 of the 21,000 whales killed in the North Pacific last year. All the other prosaic Ahabs are Russian or Japanese, who will not be affected by the ban. They must, presumably, await the wrath of their own ecologists...
...fear of a quake's havoc. Explains Dr. Stephen Howard of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic: "If something bad happens, children feel responsible: maybe their bad thoughts caused it." Adults, too, can regress to atavistic fantasy. "Their first response is to think it's the wrath of God, maybe even the Apocalypse," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California...
Foul Ball. By his action, Nixon sought to minimize the wrath of the nation's 3,500,000 unionized and politically potent hardhats. In January, he asked labor and management chiefs to devise a voluntary program to stabilize the industry's skyscraping costs (TIME, Feb. 15). Two weeks ago, he sent Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Harvard Economics Professor John Dunlop to negotiate with the building trades' executive council at Bal Harbour, Fla. Dunlop tried to win labor's tacit consent to a temporary wage-price freeze and creation of a voluntary labor-management-public wage...
Perils of Exodus. Like other Soviet citizens, Jews are forbidden to emigrate freely. Even applying for an exit visa is regarded as gross ingratitude, if not downright disloyalty, to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, some 40,000 Jews during the past three years have dared to risk official wrath by filing applications to leave for Israel. Only a bare trickle of about 2,000 a year have been allowed to leave. Almost all of those who have applied for visas have lost their jobs and been subjected to intimidation and insults by police and neighbors...