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...trying to achieve an interim Middle East peace agreement, the U.S. often resembles a sheep dog straining to keep its flock together: as fast as one errant lamb is maneuvered back into line, another one darts away. Last year Washington conceived the idea of "proximity discussions," in which the Egyptians, who refuse to negotiate directly with the Israelis, could do so through a third party, probably U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco. When the idea was first proposed last year, Egypt agreed but Israel held out. Secretary of State William Rogers had proposed a six-point plan...
...object of these efforts is to wring out some foreign trade concessions that President Nixon can boast about when he sends to Congress next month the bill formally devaluing the dollar-which came under renewed selling pressure in Europe last week. That, however, is only an interim goal. The current negotiations promise to be the opening gun in a years-long campaign to expand American exports by rewriting many of the rules that govern -and now restrict-world trade...
...limit that it will eventually accept at 8.3%. But it will permit the disallowed balance -that is, about 3.7%-to go into effect along with the regular second-year increase, thus letting some 200,000 aerospace workers end up at the wage levels originally negotiated. In the interim, they will lose about $340 each in wages. Union officials, however, threaten to contest the board's rejection in court...
...come from Nikki Giovanni's best-known poem, Nikki-Rosa. At 28, she is one of the most talented and promising black poets. She is also one of the most visible, not only because she is beautiful but because she is a shrewd and energetic propagandist. In this interim autobiography, both poet and propagandist underscore that point about black love and happiness. Part memoir and part manifesto, it is a plainspoken, lively, provocative, confusing book...
There is the minority, working on a community level, which tries to raise the level of awareness among students and faculty to the point where those who have power will join to help save all of us. To win even that interim power, however, there must be more who work, more who insist on making the political process a part of their lives and the welfare of the community their self-conscious self-interest as well...