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...decline. He secured emergency powers for one year to establish economic reforms by royal decree, rather than through parliament. Martens announced an 8.5% devaluation of the franc and, most important, suspended Belgium's system of indexing all wages to inflation. "This is the tenth time in Belgian history that the government has been given special powers by the King," Martens told TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton. "Many of the other occasions were times of war, and I consider this period to be war in terms of the economic problems we face...
Instead, the unions directed their wrath toward the European Community, which last week issued an important rebuff to a Belgian plan to restructure the nation's archaic steel industry at a cost of $1.1 billion and 5,000 lost jobs. Two major trade unions in Wallonia promptly began a weeklong series of strikes and demonstrations...
During a lunch I gave at State for Belgian Foreign Minister Renaat van Elslande, I was called by prearrangement to the White House to receive Agnew's resignation. For some obscure legal reason, the resignation of the President or the Vice President must be made to the Secretary of State. The rule had never before been implemented. I trust that no other Secretary of State will find himself accepting the resignations of both our highest elected officials in the space often months...
...Pontiac boosters could also point with real pride to the $55 million Silverdome. Though not as plush or as large as the New Orleans Superdome, the 80,000-seat stadium, which resembles a giant Belgian waffle, was built only for football and offers fine sight lines, as well as what CBS claims is some of the best lighting for television in the country. As for the feared Midwest blizzard, inside there is the inflatable dome's weather-controlled environment; outside more than 100 Michigan highway department snow-removal trucks with 500 tons of rock salt are ready to pounce...
Some of the mercenaries who haunt the place use right-wing watchwords like "dignity," "honor" and "Western decadence." "They are disgusted with Western society and want to prevent the Soviets from taking possession of Africa," says the owner, a former mercenary. Adds a Belgian journalist who covers the mercenary beat: "They are often out of work, racist but not politically aware. They think that everything is the fault of the migrant workers. They are not very sharp intellectually, are fascinated by weapons and very much into the cult of strength, virility and male camaraderie." Eventually, the mercenary ethos becomes...