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...vital industries. Under the inept government of Juan Perón 's widow Isabel, inflation in Argentina was galloping at an annual rate of 350%. The Treasury, down to its last foreign reserves, was about to default on its overseas debt. Then, on March 24, in a bloodless, clockwork coup, the military deposed Isabel Peron from the presidency. Led by the Commander in Chief of the army, Jorge Rafael Videla, the new junta set two goals: crushing terrorism and reviving the economy. How well has it done? Last week TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cabled this assessment...
Bannish described the ailment to reporters today, saying "It used to come to me like clockwork every Sunday morning. I'd wake up really dizzy with my head pounding like a construction company building a new wing on Lamont...
...Clockwork Orange. Friday and Saturday at 3:10 and 7:30. With Performance...
Stanley Kubrick has seen the future and it doesn't work, judging by his apocalyptic vision better known as A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell's Alex and his trusted droogs mug, rape and generally terrorize their way through a British Sodom masquerading as a civilized society. If your stomach holds out, your sensory organs will be grateful; this is first-rate Kubrick, and you'll appreciate the perfectionist approach to his craft evident in every scene as he spares no detail in creating this nightmarish conception of the fate awaiting modern society...
...deem it out of the question politically to cut defense expenditures, which swallowed 42% of the $12 billion budget in 1976. Welfare payments ($2.2 billion last year) are another political untouchable. The Histadrut, Israel's all-powerful labor federation, is dead set against wage controls; workers strike like clockwork to protest high prices, and nearly always win raises from management. Last week in the Knesset (parliament), the right-wing opposition party, Likud, pushed into committee four bills requiring arbitration in labor disputes involving various public service workers. The Histadrut set off a thunderous cry, and the bills are expected...