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...roots of the trouble went far deeper-to the core of the Catholic Church in Spain. Involved is a struggle between a rising new generation of social-minded priests and the elderly, hidebound church hierarchy bent on maintaining a cautious and comfortable status quo. Over the years the Spanish church-in the pay and shadow of the Franco government-has drifted out of touch with almost everything it stands for. Its religion has become one that is imposed rather than preached. "We must identify ourselves with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem...
...Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order to placate foreign creditors without sacrificing prosperity, for it still fails to dig at the roots of Britain's problem: lax management and hidebound labor...
...hindsight, some British executives of Ford also blame themselves for the situation. In 15 years Dagenham grew twelve times larger than its prewar size, but British management failed to keep up. When Ford of Detroit took control, it was faced with falling profits, a hopelessly hidebound pyramidal management and an inadequate pool of promising young British executives. To correct the situation, Ford rushed over some of its own bright young men, just as it had done without difficulty at the German Ford plant in Cologne. Some of the Americans are at Dagenham temporarily, will be sent on to other countries...
...Only the hidebound Istiqlal Party opposed the royal move, and its objections were, typically, embedded in a 3,000-word communiqué that was both verbose and confused. The other parties, mostly leftist and vaguely socialist, backed the King with a few reservations because they were sympathetic to the idea of authoritarian rule. Speaking for the financial community, Casablanca's daily Maroc-Informations said that businessmen "will be able to talk cogently with men of real authority now that the parliamentary masquerade is ended...
...sought that popular path-the middle of the road. In office, the Tories became considerably less conservative than had been their wont. In fact, on both sides extremism is in swift decline. The Ban-the-Bombers have all but faded from the political scene. So have the hidebound Tories and harrumphing Colonel Blimps...