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...symbol of the rigor and discipline France needs. Bankers fear that Barre's departure would diminish confidence in the French economy, frighten capital investors and cause the franc (which has held steady against the West German mark for more than a year) to tumble. In a last-ditch defense of his policies, Barre sounded an emphatic warning against false expectations. "You can replace me, but don't have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members of parliament. "My successor, whoever he is, will be forced to show the same strictness." What...
...flagpole atop bush-covered Ancon Hill. The Panama Canal Zone, the 648-sq.-mi. enclave that had been under U.S. sovereignty since 1903, had ceased to exist. Its absorption by Panama was the first step in a process that will give that country control of the Big Ditch by the year...
Just what is supply economics? According to the business press, it is the latest successor to Keynesian economics: if we could ditch obsolete ideas and get a better answer for the supply side of the equation, we could overcome stagflation...
...insurmountable. Committee members say that they believe in the legitimacy and intellectual excitement of Afro-American Studies, and want to make sure other Harvard community members think so, too. Although efforts to help Afro-Am have a long history of failure, they remain confident. "This really is a last ditch effort--if this doesn't work, nothing will," Patterson says. Rosovsky and the rest of the committee are laying cautious odds that it will, but this year should prove a crucial test of that optimism
Dean Rosovsky recently announced what some observers have called a "last ditch effort to shore up Afro-Am. He has created an executive committee of five prominent scholars to run the department, to search for tenured professors and to determine Afro-Am's broad intellectual goals. Rosovsky and the committee members clearly have high hopes for the committee--and just as clearly do not know what to do if this new effort fails...