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With all of the exaggerated, alarmist claims of rapid change overpowering our society, it is a pleasure to see controlled research on social change in the Middletown III study...
...recent shift leftward of their common neighbor Afghanistan. In April a leftist junta overthrew and killed President Mohammad Daoud. American policymakers are reserving judgment on the nature and course of the new regime, but in Tehran and Islamabad the judgment is in, and it is thoroughly pessimistic, if somewhat alarmist. Iranian and Pakistani officials are certain that the coup was instigated by Moscow. After more than a century as a neutral buffer state in the great game, Afghanistan, they say, is now a Soviet satellite. "We, Pakistan, are now the buffer state," argues a foreign office man in Islamabad...
...York Daily News's James Wieghart saw a "concern bordering on panic ... friends and advisers feel his presidency hangs in the balance." When the polls at last did begin to show a slip in Carter's popularity, how could any Jeremiah make his alarms more alarmist...
...Alarmist questions? Perhaps. Nonetheless, they were raised last week in the wake of the Administration's first face-to-face encounter with the Russians. It was an obvious setback. Cyrus Vance returned from his visit to Moscow as Secretary of State shaken by the Soviets' brusque dismissal of two U.S. proposals for reviving the long-stalled SALT talks (TIME, March...
Administration economists, and a good many outside experts, regard such views as alarmist. Still, the widespread talk about inflation has already hurt the financial markets. Stock prices in the first two months of the year fell 7% and trading volume declined by 25% from a year earlier. The bond market has been sagging, too, causing a rise in interest rates. Last week, for example, double-A utility bonds were selling at a yield of 8.35%, v. 7.8% in late December...