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...dogma was certainly specific enough, and many Russians even today have a lingering prejudice against private property. Such an attitude, of course, could put a serious crimp in the Kremlin's ambitious plans to create a consumer-oriented economy. Last week Izvestia attempted through sleight of mind to remove the stigma of ownership from Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
Chile's President Eduardo Frei is a Christian Democrat who came to office on a platform of sweeping social reform. He has turned out to be a reformer, all right, but of a kind that Chilenos had not quite expected. Seven months ago, he put a crimp in the national afternoon siesta by banning the three-hour lunch break. Then came a prohibition of movies after midnight and the closing of television stations at 11:45 p.m. "A nation that goes to bed late cannot work well the next day," the government explained...
Western Pinups. In Operation Crimp, some 8,000 U.S. and Australian fighting men lanced into dusty Ho Bo Woods scarcely 30 miles to the north of Saigon in the crescent of rice lands, rubber plantations and jungle scrub that the Viet Cong have controlled for years...
...Cabinet was suave conservative Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 39. Giscard's severe anti-inflationary policies were what put the crimp in private expansion and public spending-or at least so the voters thought. He remains an aide whom De Gaulle can ill afford to antagonize, for his 35-man Independent Republican party gives De Gaulle's U.N.R. its ten-man majority in the National Assembly. Two of his Independent Republicans were given portfolios...
...months, the U.S. public can hardly demand major victories-at least until a serious supply bottleneck is broken and Westmore land gets the extra combat divisions he has been pleading for. But as the U.S. troop level climbs toward 400,000 men, as the price of war begins to crimp Great Society programs and boost taxes, Americans may find it harder than ever to accept the long war predicted by the Administration. Military men talk in terms of years, and though other officials insist that "something will give" long before that, few would risk curtailing the U.S. buildup...