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Meanwhile, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey had grim warnings for Britons about a new inflationary spiral. If wage increases sought by public service employees and other striking workers average 15%, the country could expect double-digit inflation by summer, reaching 13% by year's end (current rate: 9%). The wage hikes could add $6 billion to the cost of public services in Britain, which the Labor government might have to offset by raising taxes and cutting government expenditures by $3 billion. If so, the number of unemployed in the country could rise from about 1.5 million...
What a time, indeed. The current ballad by Rhodesian Singer Clem Tholet reflected the country's mood as Tholet's father-in-law, who happens to be Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, led his white countrymen one step closer to black majority rule. Last week, at Smith's urging, white Rhodesians went to the polls to approve by a wide margin a new constitution under which rule is to pass from the country's 240,000 whites to its 6.4 million blacks. The transition will take place after the whites, along with 2.8 million black voters...
...cities and towns, where terrorism is increasing. In Salisbury the Prime Minister was heckled by a group of ex-servicemen still committed to the idea of a military solution. Some critics called the referendum a "mandate for disaster," and one young veteran taunted Smith with the words of another current song: "Will someone tell us why we fight?/ Why what once was wrong is now what's right?" Nobody tried to explain that, by fighting off political change for so many years, the Smith government had helped to bring Rhodesia to its present impasse...
...current situation, even seeing isn't believing, as all television viewers know who saw and heard the Ayatullah's "spokesman" address the cameras only to have everything he said repudiated by the old man the next day On the eve of Khomeini's return to Tehran, the New York Times admitted all in a frontpage headline: AYATULLAH, THE SYMBOL OF REVOLT, ELUDES DEFINITION...
...after a 19-year run, and has turned to a new career: translating ancient Greek. Although his formal training was only a single semester of Greek more than 50 years ago at the University of Pennsylvania, he has translated a number of poems, five of which appear in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. He also reads Greek history in the original. "It's trying to dig out the truth from ancient documents the way I used to dig them out of the Pentagon," says Stone. So excited is he about his new endeavor that...