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...defied the IMF. Prime Minister Manley had agreed in 1978 to follow the IMF conditions for a loan. But by 1979 the economy had not improved under mild austerity procedures. So in January, Manley went back to the IMF to ask for another loan. The IMF told him to lay off 11,000 workers and cut his budget by $85 million. Manley refused. There was nothing left to do but resign and call for new elections later in the year...
...meeting, Muskie last week pored over a stack of briefing books and huddled with the State Department's top Soviet experts. During testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the confirmation hearings for his new post, he said: "I would expect each side to undertake to lay out its perception of each other's policies." Thus it was anticipated that Gromyko will claim, as Moscow does in public, that it sent a "limited Soviet military contingent" into Afghanistan in response to an appeal from the Kabul regime...
Reagan must also refine his main themes for the fall campaign, but he is having some trouble doing so. He was supposed to lay out a comprehensive economic policy in a speech last Friday, but after reading a draft prepared by aides, he put off that effort and huddled again with his advisers. The key issue is how deep a tax cut Reagan should advocate. During the primaries he has talked of slashing income tax rates 30% over three years. At times he has sounded as though he thought the idea is an economic cureall, prompting Bush to attack...
Even as he lay dying, the cumbersome machinery of succession he had devised to provide an orderly transition of power went into effect. Koliševski, a Macedonian and longtime Tito loyalist, chaired Cabinet and other government meetings. Koliševski was acting as one of the first beneficiaries of the "collective leadership" plan incorporated into Yugoslavia's 1974 constitution. This plan established a state presidency of eight regional and presumably equal members, who are supposed to rotate as chairmen each year. Tito also set up a companion 24-member system for the party Presidium, the highest body...
...clergy. Black bishops head 70% of Africa's 353 dioceses, but two-thirds of the priests are still white missionaries. Seminary enrollments are growing, but not fast enough to keep up with the spread of African Catholicism. The pastoral gap is filled by widespread use of lay catechists. Africa's Protestants outnumber Catholics, perhaps in part because they have an overwhelmingly black clergy, and their churches are wholly independent of overseas control...