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This adds up to one of the thorniest problems that the EEC now faces: chronic payments deficits among all EEC nations, including even those like France whose exports are increasing, but excluding West Germany, which is running consistent surpluses even while its Deutsche Mark rises in value. Compromise will be necessary on both sides...
Ever since the Weimar Republic, with its short-lived Cabinets and chronic crises, collapsed in the face of Nazism, Germans have worried about their ability to build a stable, democratic political system. The latest political crisis to confront the Federal Republic should do much to allay those fears. Less than two weeks after Willy Brandt stunned his countrymen by suddenly resigning as Chancellor, a new government was functioning smoothly in Bonn. Last Thursday, in the modern and austere Bundestag chambers, Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, 55, took the oath as West Germany's fifth Chancellor...
Since China's leadership holds some sort of record in the annals of gerontocracy, Chou might as well have said, "I am not very well-but not because I am sick." At 76 he is four years younger than Mao. He is known to suffer from chronic neuralgia and rheumatism, perhaps high blood pressure as well, but none of these ailments is considered serious enough to explain his partial eclipse. As though underscoring the political rather than the medical nature of Chou's troubles, one of his aides remarked cryptically, "He is neither...
...upon steel, fuel and all the sundry raw materials transported by trains. Most experts feel the economy cannot tolerate a strike for more than ten days. Then there would be staggering shortages of everything from food to fertilizer in a nation of 600 million people, 50% of whom suffer chronic food deficiencies...
...Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta), Gambia and in areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Near famine also plagues Bolivia, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. One poor harvest could bring massive hunger to India, the Sudan, Guyana, Somalia, Guinea and Zaire. In two dozen other nations, the populace faces chronic food shortages. Among them: Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti...