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...problems. It has no overall commander in Lebanon, so major decisions must be referred to the Jerusalem headquarters of Major General Emmanuel Erskine, a Ghanaian. So far, the backbone of the U.N. force is composed of 627 French paratroopers based in Tyre and 690 Norwegians stationed in the eastern sector of the ceasefire line. The French are tough soldiers, the Norwegians well trained and professional. But neither unit is familiar with the Arab world or has had much fighting experience. "The only combat most of them have seen," remarks one Western military observer, "is in the movies...
...Treasury official, but "you can look for him to call on state and local governments to do the same thing." All Carter's advisers agree that the President must scale down the federal pay raise if he is to have any hope of getting unions in the private sector to take his pleas for wage-price restraint seriously; federal workers are widely believed to be overfed and underworked. And the threat of escalating wage demands has become very real in the wake of the boost in pay and benefits-estimated as high as 39% over three years-that...
Investments in the private sector must be encouraged through government policy in order to "save" U.S. cities, Watson said, adding the federal government does not have the revenue to do it alone...
When an administration or Faculty decision is made at Harvard, it is very easy to ignore student feelings on the matter, especially on issues that do not arouse intense feelings. Every other sector of the University community is represented, in one way or another, in or around the decision-making process. Only students, the supposed raison d'etre of the University, have no institutional representation...
...eleven U.S. banks that have made most of the $2.2 billion in U.S. loans now outstanding to South Africa. Citibank did not trumpet its decision; it broke the news in a proxy statement to shareholders, quietly adding that it is continuing to lend "selectively, to constructive private sector activities that create jobs and which benefit all South Africans." It did not say what guidelines it would follow to make sure its loans achieved a multiracial purpose. Nonetheless, activist groups that have been pushing U.S. companies to get out of South Africa were happy that such a major bank had actually...