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...there, buddy, how about moving back?" the driver said, meanwhile driving his bus just as fast as he could. The whole bus froze- whites at the front, blacks at the rear. They didn't want to believe what was happening was really happening. The seated black man said nothing. The standing white man said nothing...
...Shah. Carter ordered the deportation of all Iranian students in the U.S. who were not complying with the terms of their visas, suspended imports of Iranian oil (4% of U.S. consumption), ordered the carrier Midway to steam from the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Sea, and froze $8 billion in Iranian assets deposited in U.S. banks...
...NETHERLANDS. The bare maintenance of welfare outlays at present levels-30% of a national budget of $150 billion-demands a 2% annual increase in national production. But economic growth is expected to drop to zero this year. What to do? The government last winter froze wages, an act that provoked a rash of strikes and poisoned the social climate. The 1.4 million beneficiaries of state aid, a potent political force, have so far managed to blunt major attempts at social services reform in parliament. "Everyone agrees to the welfare state, but not on how to pay for it," concludes...
Worse than the unguided guest is one who cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...
Will the Iranian assets thaw as fast as they froze...