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...other problem lies within the ICCS itself. Given the natural divisions between the Canadians and Indonesians, who generally try to maintain a professionally neutral posture despite their Western sponsorship, and the Poles and Hungarians, who invariably favor the Communist side, nearly all ICCS teams suffer a built-in paralysis. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand visited one ICCS team last week in Tri Ton, a small town in the Mekong Delta. His report...
Americans are also making increasingly costly demands on the food industry. They buy more and more frozen foods and TV dinners, which add 25% to food costs (but really amount to built-in maid service). Restrictive labor union practices contribute to boosting costs. For example, Iowa Beef Processers, Inc. would like to ship all of its meat butchered and boxed; since heavy fat and bones have already been removed, transportation costs are dramatically reduced. In some major urban centers, however, butchers refuse to handle precut meat. They insist on keeping the jobs for themselves, despite higher costs for consumers...
...Kraus plan could produce other distortions of the present academic atmosphere. With no built-in incentives to encourage teaching and with no aid beyond the fifth-year, graduate students will not readily undertake time-consuming assignments with undergraduates such as tutorials and sections. The threat to undergraduate education is clear. Furthermore, several professors have agreed that the Kraus plan's financial demands on graduate students may force them to spend valuable time in employment outside of the academic atmosphere, thus taking important time away from their dissertations and studies...
...both sides want to resume fighting, it is not clear how the combatants can be kept apart. Considering the built-in limitations of the ICC (see box, page 17), the effectiveness of the cease-fire would seem to depend mostly on the spirit of observance by the Vietnamese-a proud, stubborn, subtle people who can quietly nurture hate until the moment of retribution arrives...
...mixed up in the Watergate case? Hunt admits that he had a political motive, which he dresses up rather elaborately. "There is a built-in bias by the intellectual community, including the news media, against people who want to preserve the best of our country's heritage. As for me, I don't want to exchange the good of this country for the uncertainties of change." Hunt also has a more practical explanation for his involvement: "I was not aware that my activity constituted a federal offense. I never personally went into Democratic offices, and I thought...