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Patrick also accuses Miller of a more unpardonable sin. "Arnold has betrayed the movement for democracy in the union," says Patrick. "He's behaving like a dictator." Miller has recently shown a draconian side, abruptly dismissing several top aides, beefing up security at the union's Washington headquarters and insisting that everyone, including Patrick, clear all travel with him. When one of Miller's secretaries was suspected of political plotting with Patrick, the door to her office was removed. (It has since been restored...
Soweto's blacks insist that the death toll in their township alone last June was at least 350, or more than double the official toll of 168. (The government now admits that most of the officially dead were shot in the back.) Dozens of students are still detained under draconian security laws, and at least 1,000 others face trial on such catchall charges as causing public violence. Perhaps another 1,000 students, fearing further police pressure in the form of post-midnight security sweeps, have fled South Africa for neighboring Botswana and Swaziland...
Cool Relations. Party reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...
Essentially, Prime Minister James Callaghan agreed to take the politically explosive step of carving $5.8 billion out of Britain's $18 billion budget deficit over the next two years, largely by slashing government outlays. The Cabinet is considering draconian spending cuts, like a moratorium on all government construction. Ministers are further thinking about removing automatic cost-of-living increases from social security payments and civil service pensions, despite an inflation rate now running at almost 15%. Defense expenditures will be cut too (see THE WORLD), but not as sharply as social spending. Some British taxes will have...
...rebel against the social contract and seek big raises to catch up with inflation. Now a new menace has arisen: the possibility that onerous conditions could be attached to the IMF loan. Talk is circulating through London that the IMF may demand, if not a $1.50 pound, then draconian cuts in social spending or a rise in the Bank of England's minimum lending rate to 18% (it is already a sky-high...