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Going Along. The O.P.E.C. decision last week to increase charges was embarrassing for Saudi Arabia, the world's largest producer. The Saudis are torn between supporting the cartel and sustaining their hard-pressed international customers. Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani has publicly advocated a cut of $2 per bbl. or so on the grounds that the oil producers are part of the Western economic system and they could not profit by bankrupting their customers. After conferences with King Faisal, Treasury Secretary William Simon returned from Jidda two months ago with encouraging news: the Saudis in August would hold...
...public as a gift after his death and that of his wife. Daughters Julie and Tricia are reportedly urging their parents to return East, while Old Friend Bebe Rebozo has apparently suggested that the Nixons live near him on their Key Biscayne, Fla., property. The ex-President seems torn, because he also wants to be near research facilities for his long period of memoir writing, and Southern California is the probable location for a proposed Nixon library...
...more than a year, the Missouri Synod has been torn by an ever deepening division between the church's conservatives, who hew to a strictly literal interpretation of the Bible, and its moderate liberals, who more readily use modern methods of biblical criticism and tend to view some supposedly historical passages (the Garden of Eden story, for example) as religious myth. At the Synod's convention in New Orleans last year, the conservatives consolidated their hold on the denomination by returning the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus to the church's presidency and winning a majority...
...with Afro for the Third World Center, among other things. Members also have consciousness-raising sessions for women, men and homosexuals, Marxist study groups and workshops on graphic posters and literate leaflets. At Harvard, they're probably the closest thing there is to the old SDS before it got torn apart by factionalism and anger...
...childhood, he realizes, as in the Thomas Wolfe title, that "you can't go home again." Americans leave home to pursue their fortunes elsewhere, in strange locations and foreign surroundings. And as soon as they are installed in the new situation they feel alien and misplaced, as though torn from some childhood Eden. So they move on, settling elsewhere in a vain effort to resurrect the shade of the trees on their childhood street and the sun-bright dust on the local ball field...