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...just about everything a bit more spectacularly than most other people. That includes marriage and divorce. The U.S. has the world's highest divorce rate, but it also leads in the rate of remarriage after divorce, an occurrence that frequently boosts the statistics by leading to yet another breakup. Americans, in short, appear to be marrying more and enjoying it less. This situation distresses clergymen, sociologists and anthropologists, who rightly regard stable marriage as the foundation of society. But it is only half the tragedy of divorce in America. The real scandal is not that so many Americans resort...
...been hacked out of mangrove swamps and jungled hills. So far, 47 factories there make products ranging from ships and socks to tires and toothpaste, and another 16 plants are abuilding. But the factories were designed to supply the federation's 11 million customers, and since the breakup Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
...situation was hopeless, that's simply not true." The guessing in Brussels was that De Gaulle, furious at the way his bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow to their pocket-books-particularly in the very week that he chose to set the next national election. He has until...
Chou's only consolation was that, two days after he left, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya announced that the East African shilling, established when the countries were under British rule, will be abandoned, with the end of the three-nation Common Market expected to follow. Prime instigator of the breakup was Tanzania, which has had its own currency printed for more than a year, and which wants to embargo imports from Kenya and so end the unfavorable trade balance it has traditionally had with its more highly developed neighbor. In order to do so, Tanzania apparently plans to import...
...election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians...