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...have any real effect, U.N. sanctions would have to include a total blockade on oil imports by Rhodesia. But such a blockade would almost inevitably lead Britain into a direct economic confrontation with South Africa, which now supplies the fuel that Rhodesia cannot readily get anywhere else. That would cut off Britain's considerable trade with South Africa, most notably including gold, which is one of the main props for the British pound. Last week sterling dropped of a cent in a wave of panic selling. Whatever happens, Wilson told Parliament, the U.N. sanctions "must not be allowed...
Franz Josef Strauss, 51, the barrel-shaped boss of the Christian Democrats' autonomous Bavarian branch, took on perhaps the most difficult portfolio of all: finance. Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's government in effect fell over the refusal of his Free Democrat coalition partners to go along with needed tax increases. But Strauss has less balky coalition mates. As a start toward wiping out the $1.5 billion deficit for the 1967 budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill...
...election, future Presidents would be chosen by Congress, and the President would have sweeping powers, including the right to declare a "state of siege" and suspend Congress, as well as the right to issue "decree-laws" that would be submitted to Congress only after they had gone into effect. As for Congress itself, it would be barred from tampering with the budget, interfering with salary raises, and from delaying passage of various other types of presidential bills. In matters of "national security," the new constitution would also put civilians under the jurisdiction of military courts...
...life. What Christianity -and man in general-needs to worry about is secularism, by which he means a closed attitude to life that shuts out all possibility of transcendence and dogmatically declares that this world is all there is. By absolutizing the universe in this way, secularism in effect "resacralizes" earthly institutions, such as science or the state, in much the same way that ancient cosmic...
Responsibility for the world, Gogarten argues, requires that man be open toward the mystery of being and the unknowable possibilities of the future-something that secularism refuses to do. And by remaining open to the future, man, in effect, becomes open to the encounter with God. For Gogarten, God is not a static, distant Creator of past aeons; instead, he is the "Coming One," a hidden God who seeks man in the reality in which he lives. Thus, God is not behind history or apart from it, but ahead of it; and what points to his presence is the unfathomable...