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...fires at Egypt's Suez refineries. The principal targets were surface-to-air missile sites, and the destruction of SAM sites was a warning to Egypt not to press too hard. It was also an indication that, for the time being, Israel would rather maintain the uncertain status quo than agree to any peace formula that would diminish its security...
Changing Tactics. Ulbricht's letter called on West Germany to be "realistic." In Communist parlance, that means to accept the status quo of a permanently divided Germany and the Oder-Neisse border, thus finally acknowledging the postwar Polish takeover of areas formerly held by Germany. The letter included the draft of a proposed state treaty on "the establishment of equal relations" between the two Germanys...
...European Security Conference, which the Russians hope to convene in Helsinki during the first half of 1970. The Soviets say somewhat grudgingly that they have "no objection" to the U.S. and Canada attending. For Moscow, the primary purpose of the conference would be to formalize the status quo in Europe by guaranteeing existing borders. The long-range Soviet goal may well be to convince the Europeans that an American military presence is no longer needed on the Continent and thereby isolate the U.S. from Europe...
...many Americans, Nader, at 35, has become something of a folk hero, a symbol of constructive protest against the status quo. When this peaceful revolutionary does battle against modern bureaucracies, he uses only the weapons available to any citizen?the law and public opinion. He has never picketed, let alone occupied, a corporate office or public agency. Yet Nader has managed to cut through all the protective layers and achieve results. He has shown that in an increasingly computerized, complex and impersonal society, one persistent man can actually do something about the forces that often seem to badger...
Representatives of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) yesterday termed an Administration list of responses to black students' demands of last month "merely a flowery restatement of the status quo vis a vis black employment on Harvard's campus and black participation on Harvard's construction program...