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Like thousands of other proprietors of motels, restaurants, travel agencies, airlines, resorts and ski areas from New Orleans to Nice, Fullmer is a casualty of the world fuel shortage. The traveling public, beset by uncertainty over flight cancellations, filling-station closings and gasoline-rationing schemes, is staying home in droves. As a result, the travel industry, which accounts for $60 billion a year in the U.S. alone, is hav ing one of its most chilling winters...
...past, the grand jury-selected annually to investigate the city government-has praised the schools. This year's blistering indictment is just one of many attacks on a school system that is becoming increasingly beset by troubles as pervasive as the city's fogs. Since 1969, reading and math scores for San Francisco students have been dropping steadily; they are now well below national norms. School board meetings are repeatedly disrupted by noisy, contentious community factions attacking each other, the board and Board President Eugene S. Hopp. At a recent meeting, police had to quell a minor riot...
Britain this week was a country beset by a crisis on top of a crisis. The nation's 270,000 coal miners walked off the job at the start of the week, and Prime Minister Edward Heath launched a three-week election campaign to fight for his political life. For Britons, the prospect for the lingering weeks of winter was for more sacrifices, as the nation headed toward a divisive election and potentially disastrous coal shortages. While no one was predicting that they would not find the resilience to weather this latest avalanche of troubles, there was no question...
Leadership for the Continent is no where on the horizon. Europe today is governed by political technicians who devote most of their energies to tinkering with domestic affairs to remain in power-and do even that badly. Every major leader is beset by crises. Some, like France's Georges Pompidou and West Germany's Willy Brandt, seem tired and bored; others, like Britain's Edward Heath, are fighting for their political lives. All of them are, essentially, afraid to make decisions that would promote the cause of Europe for fear that they might cause momentary domestic complications...
...does raise serious concerns about the problem of juvenile delinquency and what can be done about it. The slaying of the 16-year-old and many other less sensational individual tragedies of the Chinese in the United States, can be attributed to the many social and economic problems that beset large urban Chinatowns. Few people outside the Chinese community realize the serious plight of the urban Chinese and are surprised by news of delinquency and poverty among an ethnic group that is generally perceived as a hard-working one with a strong and stable family structure. But those within...