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...impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa. For the immediate future, that embargo will have only a limited effect, since South Africa is virtually self-sufficient in arms production?but it was a clear signal that the U.N., and particularly the West, is determined to take a firmer line with South Africa from...
They contend such tactics do nothing to root out inflation's basic cause. Even so, many economists believe that to be effective, the White House will have to take a much firmer stand against Big Business and Big Labor. Says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Quite honestly, at the moment I don't think the Administration's got an anti-inflation program." Unless the White House gets tougher, some economists fear, the job of restraining prices will fall to the independent Federal Reserve Board and its Chairman Arthur Burns...
...most difficult decisions that I've made since I've been in office." Even he could not pinpoint for aides the precise moment when he finally made up his mind. Says Press Secretary Jody Powell: "It began with an inclination, and it just got firmer and firmer as time went along...
...approach of suspicion and suppression, as well as the failure of officials to construct a positive, integrative policy towards the Arabs, has been a major mistake of Israel's first quarter-century. Unless the first faltering steps which have been made toward a more constructive policy are followed by firmer equalizing measures--which Begin seems unlikely to institute--Israel faces a growing menace of internal disintegration as an increasing percentage of her Jewish population comes to recognize the necessity of a fairer policy towards the Arabs. Authors such as Jiryis and el-Asmar, in carefully and eloquently bringing...
...case for charm--or the fourth quark--became much firmer when it was realized that there was a serious flaw in the familiar three-quark [flavor] theory, which predicted that "strange" particles would sometimes decay in ways that they did not. In an almost magical way, the existence of the charmed quark prohibits these unwanted and unseen decays, and brings the theory into agreement with experiment. Thus did my recent [1970] collaborators, John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I justify another definition of charm as a magical device to avert evil...