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Prospects are brighter in the Senate, where a switch of only five seats would put the Republicans in command...
...ECONOMY. Belatedly, the President took command by imposing a wage-price freeze that has worked better than most critics said it would. Inflation has been slowed, and the G.N.P. is beginning to rise at a brisk rate. By devaluing the dollar, the President showed that he could be as flexible as he had to be in handling the economy...
...When the Command Sergeant Major...
...Arab nations could finally consummate "a full and complete revolutionary merger" and presumably launch a jihad, or holy war, against Israel. Sadat wants neither another losing war nor competition for power from a would-be Nasser like Gaddafi; he shrewdly persuaded Gaddafi to establish for now a "unified political command" which will spend at least 13 months studying the military, monetary, judicial and economic problems involved in the proposed merger. Chances are that the union itself will never take place...
There is plenty of filling to be done. Something like 130 of Peking's 300 senior military men-including the army chief of staff and top officers in the air force, the navy and the logistics command-have simply dropped from public view since autumn. With just twelve active members, the Politburo is now only half its original size, although it accurately reflects the divisions in the regime between the leftist ideological hotspurs who opposed the rapprochement with the West-and especially President Nixon's visit last February-and the old-guard pragmatists who approved of both...