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...recent weeks though, Epps' over-haul of the College's race relations bureaucracies has caused the gradual cession of the powers of Counter and Gravelle...
...Romania demonstrations erupted against food and fuel shortages, amid calls for the resignation of President Ion Iliescu. In an apparent effort to deflect attention from its troubles, the government endorsed ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the forced cession of parts of Transylvania to Hungary in 1940. The maneuver may have worked in the short term, but at the price of increasing tensions between the region's 6 million Romanians and 2.3 million ethnic Hungarians...
Nevertheless, Begin and Israel remain dangerously isolated in the wake of the Sinai cession. Many informed citizens in this country have started to lean tentatively toward the PLO as the seams of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's West Bank policy shows signs of straining. Without the recent oil glut, pressure on Israel would be greater. Sadat's successor Hosni Mubarak, moreover, has indicated his desire to return to the Arab fold and will likely normalize relations with Iraq by the end of the spring. The diplomatic normalization between Israel and Egypt. Begin's main concession at Camp David has cooled...
...increased and service deteriorates under Panamanian control, Latin American nations will be particularly damaged. Half of Ecuador's trade, 41% of Peru's and 77% of Nicaragua's moves through the canal. Accordingly, while these and other Latin American countries such as Colombia and Chile publicly supported U.S. cession of the canal, they conducted "back channel" talks with Washington to make sure that there would be American guarantees of uninterrupted operation...
...Both Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, have already let it be known that they favor a gasoline-tax hike. In a joint press conference, they also suggested that they might support a general tax cut, since the re cession is turning out to be sharper than expected. Even Ford's visitors from abroad, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, pressed him to take more resolute action in the deepening economic crisis (see THE WORLD...