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Millions of consumers, stunned by higher prices, go about their daily shopping chores with a sinking feeling and fret over the erosion of their earnings and savings. Along with Watergate-and partially because of the scandal's enervating effect on Government-the state of the U.S. economy has become Nixon's other crisis. Last week the signs multiplied that the President was about to strike back with yet another major anti-inflation program that would add up to a de facto Phase...
...being driven from office came from prominent Democrats. Said Senator Edmund Muskie: "I doubt if a majority of Congress would want to set impeachment in motion, but duty might lead Congress to do it." The majority of Democratic politicians, however, held their tongues and allowed the Republicans to fret and criticize in public. Conservative Columnist James Kilpatrick had already called Watergate "squalid, disgraceful and inexcusable." Crosby S. Noyes, a moderately conservative columnist for the Washington Star-News, surprised the capital last week by predicting that "when Nixon realizes the extent to which his authority has been shattered by these events...
...their prospering industrial corner of north central Spain, some 2,000,000 dour, strong-willed Basques-"the alkaloid of the Spaniard," Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called them -fret that hard work and efficiency have not brought them the recognition and cultural elbowroom that they feel they deserve in a still-autocratic society. In France, which enjoys Western Europe's fastest-growing economy, young Bretons in search of a job and a future still gravitate to Paris. There they gather nightly, like so many expatriates, in the bars around Montparnasse to raise their glasses to a murmured Breiz atao-Brittany...
Hanley might well yearn for the simplicity of biblical days, when the Good Samaritan, reaching humanely to help a stricken traveler, had no need to fret about warrants, lawsuits, the high cost of medical care or the expensive frailties of Cadillacs and jet airliners...
...have the Chinese decided to deal with Tokyo now, having scornfully rebuffed Japanese advances for years? The chief consideration may well be fear of Russia. Peking may have begun to fret that the gradual U.S. withdrawal from Asia, and China's longstanding anti-Japanese policy, might simply push Tokyo closer to Moscow, which recently increased Russian military strength along China's border from 47 to 50 divisions. The Chinese also need Japanese technology to help modernize their economy. Then there is the age factor: now that Mao is pushing 79, Chou, who is 74, could be hurrying...