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...Soviet press fired its sharpest salvos in years at the U.S. Izvestiya attacked U.S. policy on human rights as an "anti-Soviet hobbyhorse." Tass Commentator Yuri Kornilov said the SALT talks were threatened by tests of a neutron bomb that the U.S. announced last week and by America's "other inhuman weapons of mass annihilation." Of course, the Soviet people knew which way the wind was blowing. American High Jumper Teresa Smith, competing in a Soviet-American track meet, felt the chill in the Black Sea town of Sochi: "In Germany, we got applause even on our warmup jumps...
...sharpest division in American popular culture is between those who like a lot of sex in what they read and see and those who don't. Those who don't have a hard time ignoring the subject: four of the top ten bestselling magazines on the newsstands are skin books. In this highly successful and sleazy field, the big news is that Playboy, once the undisputed leader, no longer rules the roost...
...decidedly mixed. The President's popularity rating in opinion polls has risen, rather than falling sharply as he once said he feared it would when he announced the energy program. On the other hand, surveys taken by Pennsylvania-based Sindlinger & Co. in the past two weeks show the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the economy since the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Chairman Albert Sindlinger blames confusion among consumers as to just what the energy program is likely to do to them...
...Katangese have raised the sharpest challenge yet to Mobutu. A Belgian-trained soldier and former journalist, Mobutu has managed to unify a nation with a bloody history of chaos and tribal war. Parceling out privileged positions and sinecures to leaders of Zaïre's 200 ethnic groups, Mobutu in return demanded and got almost feudal loyalty. High-living and profligate, he tried to burnish his image as a 20th century chief by such flamboyant stunts as the "Rumble in the Jungle" between Heavy-weights Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974, which lost the government $4.1 million...
Bruising Battle. The sharpest labor-management confrontation this year will be in the coal fields, where chances of a disastrous strike are great. One reason: United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is fighting a bruising battle to retain his post in a June election against the union's secretary-treasurer, Harry Patrick, and Lee Roy Patterson, another union official. Whoever wins, the souped-up promises of the campaign-fatter pay, expensive safety improvements-will have to be included in the union's demands and could cause coal operators to resist...