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...Hardship pinches all. Peasants and professional workers alike make their way to distribution centers for grain rations or form block-long lines to register for employment. An estimated 20 million Bengalis-more than a quarter of the total population-are believed to be destitute. Half of these are refugees returning from India; the other half are internally displaced and unemployed persons. Most relief is geared toward the returning refugees. The uncertain hope is that revival of the shattered economy will take care of the rest...
Until recently, the only place that rivaled Saigon as a U.S. diplomatic hardship post was Paris-if one happened to be assigned to the Viet Nam peace talks. Inside or out of the velvet-curtained ballroom in the former Hotel Majestic, where the sessions are held, American negotiators have had little to do over the past three years beyond eating canapes and trying to keep their tempers while their Communist counterparts gleefully played to the grandstands. "For the first time anyone could remember," says one U.S. delegate, "Foreign Service types in Paris were requesting reassignment to places like Ouagadougou, where...
Americans despair not only because they are removed from the political process, but also because they are basically alienated from their material lives, from the process of production and from industrial enterprise. Work seems like drudgery, like misery and a hardship whose central object is the sanctification of leisure. We lend no credence to our own stated goals, feel no control over our own day to day activity, sense real estrangement between ourselves and those with whom we work, and atrophy while feeling that there is something else we should be doing if only we could define...
Perhaps not, but neither the wage nor price decisions of Phase II's first two weeks provide much cause for celebration. There is justification of sorts for early adjustments that exceed the Administration's yardstick: some involve hardship cases and contracts that became binding before Phase II began. But what the public desperately wants to see-and what the President's pay and price officials must provide-are some tough decisions that measure up to the yardstick...
Another potential obstacle to the success of Phase II is the degree of flexibility shown by the Pay Board and the Price Commission. Both left themselves ample room to make exceptions from the guidelines for hardship cases-and to exception the program to death, should they choose or be pressured into doing so. The Pay Board, for example, agreed to consider vagaries like "the equitable position of the employees involved" in deciding about new contracts. And the Cost of Living Council modified price rules less than a day after they had been posted. Some of the nation's largest...