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...relative to U.S. money. Italy and Sweden will devalue their currencies slightly, by 1% each, but still end up 7.6% higher than the dollar. In return, Treasury Secretary John Connally said that the U.S. this week will probably remove Nixon's 10% surcharge on imports and abandon the "Buy American" rules in the new investment tax credit for businessmen. All in all, the Smithsonian agreement demanded some sacrifices of and produced some gains for each major nation. The compromise should lead to a more flexible and above all more sensible world of money...
...first film without a hero. It is indeed his first film to challenge the very ideal of heroism around which his work so far has been built. In Ride the High Country (1961), his main characters were two aging lawmen who could not, even when they tried, abandon their own code of honor. By the time of The Wild Bunch (1969), the main characters had turned into a ragged troop of bandits, but the code persisted. It was their adherence to a suicidal notion of dignity that made these outlaws heroes despite themselves...
...historical document that had to be smuggled out of Russia. To read it is to assume a moral responsibility toward the Medvedevs. For to ignore them or tire of their plight -as many have already done with the political prisoners in Greece and elsewhere-would be to abandon them to obscurity, where they would be easy pickings for their enemies. · R.Z. Sheppard
...Pakistani government, may already have decided to abandon Dacca," Hutchins said. "The invasion may actually help the Pakistani leaders by allowing them to blame their loss of East Pakistan on India rather than on internal political revolution," he said...
...level civil servant who also has the unusual distinction of speaking Eskimo. At a trade convention in Manhattan last week, Strong urged that the new Secretary-General revitalize the organization by drastically cutting its staff and undertaking "a major redeployment of resources." Others have suggested that the U.N. Secretariat abandon its traditional but none too successful efforts at peace making for a less political role in problems like population pressure and environmental threats. Before that can be attempted, however, the elusive man with no shadow must be found...