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West Germany's economic performance, long the envy of the rest of the Continent, has fallen victim to rising oil prices and global inflation. Forecasts are the gloomiest in 30 years. The nation's growth rate is expected to fall from a positive 1.5% last year to minus...
Much of the dryness stems from the far-below-average precipitation of last spring and summer, which has continued. So far, 1981 has begun no more promisingly. In the West, a ridge of high pressure has hovered nearly 800 miles off the California coast for the past two months, blocking...
On the other side of the continent, Ronald Reagan seemed to be savoring his last days of freedom from the worries and responsibilities of the Oval Office. He made headlines only once, outside his Bel Air Presbyterian Church, when he said of the hostage crisis: "I don't think...
At its present levels, the welfare apparatus has simply become too expensive for most governments-and their taxpayers. Across the Continent, social security systems are grappling with fiscal crisis, in part because ponderous, costly bureaucracies have mushroomed to administer a vast array of programs that sometimes neglect the essential to...
Despite the Soviets' nervousness, most government-sponsored networks are now going lighter on propaganda. V.O.A. has tripled its African audience in the past decade, when it began improving news coverage of the continent and scheduling more entertainment. Many young Africans love American popular music, and the Voice's...