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Most scientists seem less concerned about Gore's patriotic rhetoric than about the possibility that universities will reshuffle research agendas to suit corporate needs. At a recent meeting of 400 Canadian and American university administrators in Toronto, Roderic Park, vice-chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley said, "Proprietary research has no place on campuses. Students and faculty members must be able to pursue their research where their interests lead them and publish it for their own career benefit," according to a report in The Chronicic of Higher Education. But Olsson says that, if necessary, the Med School...
...terms for half a decade?and possibly longer. No other democratically elected leader in the world can enjoy such a mandate. Noted one jubilant Mitterrand aide: "He will be around for seven years, and he will have parliamentary support for at least five. That's more than President Reagan, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt or Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...which provides one-third of France's oil imports and is a major customer for French arms. King Khalid, in fact, is reported to have expressed concern over a possible Communist Cabinet role, while lunching at the Elysée two weeks ago. Aides to Helmut Schmidt hint that the Chancellor will drive the same message home to Mitterrand when the two meet in Luxembourg this week. In spite of such pressures, some Mitterrand-watchers predict that he will bring a few Communists into the government, if only to satisfy his longstanding ambition to "unify France's left...
...during its first weeks in office?and with good reason. The new government faced the task of allaying fears in friendly capitals that abrupt change was in the offing. Shortly after Mitterrand's inauguration last month, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson set off for Bonn for meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. His mission: to reassure France's foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from the Elysée. Cheysson next boarded an Air France Concorde...
During World War I, however, Britain went off the gold standard in order to make it easier to finance its military effort. In 1925 Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, returned the country to the gold standard, believing that such a step would help restore the British Empire to its former preeminence. But he made the mistake of setting the value of the pound at its prewar gold price, which did not take account of high wartime inflation. This was a major cause of the nationwide general strike that virtually immobilized the economy in 1926. Indeed some historians believe...