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With the French elections only three months off, he seems also to be trying to avert criticism that his oil-comes-first foreign policies have not paid...
...effort to avert a collision with the government and stave off a possible Soviet military invasion, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent Solidarity unions, had called for a moratorium on strikes until mid-January. But last week, after scarcely more than a month of relative peace, the labor front heated up again. Renewed protests and strike threats showed that the union leadership is still unable to impose a uniform discipline on the vast and restive labor movement...
Seeking to avert a social collision, the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing halted new immigration from non-European Community countries in 1974. More recently, it has redoubled police efforts to ferret out illegal immigrants, and offered $2,250 bonuses to workers who voluntarily return to their own countries. The trouble is that many African countries have refused to take them back. Consequently, what Giscard has failed to solve by expulsion, he has tried to accomplish by diffusion: thousands of immigrants have been moved out of cities by the government and relocated in suburban areas where...
...even less likely candidate for self-reliance. Its barren, eroded soil supports few crops or even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria to avert mass starvation. Though the territory is already densely populated, the government, under a "resettlement" program, sends in truckloads of unwanted blacks from urban areas. Once in Ciskei, many of the new arrivals live in stark tent towns with no schools, shops or running water...
...AVERT YOUR EYES, just briefly, from the tinsel and the lights, And on fair Harvard's president one moment turn your sight. Ensconced in deepest labor within Massachusetts Hall He stares at open letters, then stares long at the wall. The radicals are in Law School, divestiture is dead, Christmas is approaching, and Bok should be abed. He struggles against sleepiness, he fumbles for a pen He picks his head up off the desk and down it falls again...