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...details of the proposals varied, a common conviction and a common political ethic lay behind virtually all of them. The conviction is that the "old politics", the Democratic Party's 30-odd years of brokering alliance between trade unions, minority groups, and the South had failed and that drastic changes were needed to enable the political system to cope with current crises. The political ethic underlying the specific changes proposed runs roughly like this: The political system should seek to deal directly with the issues of the time, instead of being a battleground for various faction. "Participation" in the political...
...disciple of postwar Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, one of the pioneers of European economic integration. Maurice Schumann broke with De Gaulle in 1962, after the general rejected European political unity, but returned to the Gaullist fold three years later. As Foreign Minister, he is expected not to initiate any drastic changes in France's basic policy, but rather to give it a Pompidoulian cast. That is, as one diplomat suggested, "instead of the shouted non" like that of Debré, "Schumann's non will be far more gentle and perhaps even negotiable...
...Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed drastic deflationary curbs, which were partly blamed for last year's unrest, but gave De Gaulle the foreign exchange wherewithal to attack sterling and the dollar. Ungraciously sacked by the general in 1966, Giscard used his own small party to follow a policy of "Yes, but"-a policy that Pompidou...
...paths to progress. That combination of frustration, militancy and venturesomeness last week made news in five South American countries: - In Peru, the military government of General Juan Velasco Alvarado decreed a sweeping land-reform program that included the expropriating of some U.S. interests. It was one of the most drastic -and potentially effective-such reforms ever proclaimed in Latin America. >In Argentina, terrorists firebombed 13 supermarkets owned by the International Basic Economy Corporation, a company controlled by the Rockefeller family. The fires, which destroyed seven stores and damaged six, were presumably ignited to protest the New York Governor...
...costs -most notably, sharply increased salary scales-have not been met by a similar gain in income, the orchestras' combined annual operating deficit rose from $2.9 million in 1964 to $5.7 million in 1968. The loss will soar to $8,000,000 by the 1971-72 season unless drastic steps are taken...