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Crisis Needed. Shipping men expect that freight rates will stay at their pres-ent depressed levels well into 1972. By that time, enough tonnage will have been taken out of service, and the factors of supply and demand will settle into balance once again. In the meantime, more than a few shipowners grudgingly agree with the Greek shipping journal Naftiliaki, which cynically observes: "What the markets need at the moment is some political crisis that would send a shiver down the spines of charterers and leave them scurrying for any available tonnage...
Fred Braniman, former Dispatch News Service International Correspond-ent in Laos, spoke on his personal experiences with victims of bombings. He described peace overtures made by the Pathet Lao and rebuffed by the U.S. Branfman said that the only parallel he could find for the present American actions in Laos was in the novel...
...since the Korean War to extend recognition to Peking. He became the first Western statesman who actively sought to build ties with the East Bloc and to overcome the rigidities of the cold war. He proposed a gradual easing of tension by a process he described as deéenté, entente, coopération. He recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and urged Bonn to do the same. He also urged international acceptance of East Germany. The basic outlines of Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik were traced several years earlier by De Gaulle...
...ent Nixon has attempted to allay ?rs by urging repeal of the 1950 ?t Richard H. lchord (D.-Mo.), ? of the House Internal Security ?ee, said repeal of the law, with ?ntees of civil liberties, would ?e President even greater leeway ? unlimited roundups of dissidents ? of Japanese-Americans during...
...Hotelman Conrad Hilton was less than enthusiastic about the idea. A college dropout about to become a father at 19, Barton had far to go to prove him self as a businessman. Nor did he agree with his father's evaluation of his tal ent. Barren said that he would not work for less than $1,000 a month. Conrad was not willing to pay him more than $150. The young man decided to go into business for himself...