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...Mosley is saying "I told you so," he has some justification. Though it is easy to despise his tactics, Skidelsky argues that Mosley has usually had a realistic grip on trends in economics and history. Earlier than most, he understood the breakdown of 19th century imperialistic capitalism and the ways in which investments flowed toward cheap labor and eliminated jobs at home. As a Member of Parliament in the '20s, he attempted to introduce Keynesian theories into monetary planning. His social proposals in the '30s were not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's. Historian A.J.P. Taylor has gone...
...seems ironic that 54% of the American public opposes helping the South Vietnamese refugees. When white men fled from England during the 1600s, they were "refugees" who fled in fright from the powerful grip of the King and Queen...
...unsatisfying ending. French Connection II gives Popeye Doyle another shot, a real fighting chance at his nemesis. Allowing for the arguable proposition that any sequel was necessary, French Connection His one that is tough, shrewd and fast. The movie is exciting, even frightening, but never loses its strong naturalistic grip. It also represents the most assured work its director John Frankenheimer has done since Seconds...
...Duties. While Saigon celebrated, the administration was busily extending its political grip over the country. Liberation Radio announced that the new regime was trying to find work for 1 million unemployed Vietnamese, 3 million civil servants, who were described as "parasites," and 100,000 street urchins and prostitutes. It also announced that armed security units had been set up in each village and district. In Saigon, some 1,700 youths at tended four-day courses on their "new duties" at the Youth Voluntary Training Center to prepare for what Giai Phong is calling the "Ho Chi Minh...
...inflation rate of 30% an explosive new thrust. Labor Cabinet members were warring openly over economic policy and the Common Market referendum, and a rash of strikes had slashed output in the automobile, rubber, tractor, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. Hopes that the Prime Minister might take an uncharacteristically firm grip on the situation were briefly raised when he offered to go before the nation in a televised interview...