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Tentative signs of an economic slowdown have been accumulating all winter, and last week brought yet more evidence that the battered economy cannot continue to grow for much longer. After limping along since autumn in the face of steadily soaring mortgage and construction costs, the nation's housing industry, which traditionally leads the economy into and out of recessions, is now slumping sharply. Housing starts for new homes and apartments in February fell 9.2% below the year-earlier level...
Japan is another major industrial power that has held its own against inflation, which was only 3.6% in 1979. This was accomplished, despite a heavy dependence on imported oil and raw materials, by streamlining production processes and maintaining the yen's high exchange value. Since the autumn of 1979, however, a considerable decline of the yen and external price factors have driven consumer prices upward. Last week the government of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira announced a new anti-inflation package, including sharp cuts in public-works spending and an increase in interest rates...
...hell, armies must be able to stand the heat, and that means intensive training. Every autumn the NATO alliance conducts full-scale field maneuvers in West Germany, which has the misfortune of being the front line between East and West. No one is hurt in these war games, except by accident, but they are not exactly fun either. Every effort is made to duplicate the real thing: actual forces clash by day and night, and umpires determine who would have killed whom. It is a natural subject for the cinema verite technique of Frederick Wiseman (Canal Zone, Titicut Follies...
Wiseman looked at the 1978 exercises, grandiloquently titled Operation Autumn Forge, through the eyes of an American infantry tank company. He flew with them from their base at Fort Polk, La., attended the ceremonies welcoming them to Germany and then followed them into the field. His camera makes no judgments, but the Pentagon should be happy with the result: American soldiers may have the foulest mouths in the world but, for the most part, they seem also to be intelligent and hardworking...
...everything to put off this possibility; it is continuing to build up its interference in the affairs of Afghanistan." In a direct attack on Jimmy Carter, he declared: "The anti-Soviet hysteria was needed for somebody riding the crest of this wave to win the presidential election in the autumn." But then, in what may have been a subtle deviation from the Kremlin's hitherto intransigent line, Brezhnev made the point that the Soviets would withdraw their troops when outside interference is "permanently terminated...