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Attention in Moscow and Washington is focusing on West Germany, where new Chancellor Helmut Kohl completed a complex parliamentary maneuver last week enabling him to hold elections on March 6. The issue of the NATO missile deployment plan will loom large in the upcoming campaign. Kohl has come out strongly...
ITALY. Normally governments produce only one economic forecast at a time, but this year Italy's Budget and Economic Planning Ministry is hedging its bets, offering not one but two differing views of the year ahead. The first assumes firm action against out-of-control public spending and a...
The oil deals were engineered by Volvo's patrician chief executive, Pehr Gyllenhammar, 47. He belongs to Henry Kissinger's blue-chip international consulting group and wears a steel-banded watch on each wrist, one set for Goteborg time, the other for New York. Says he: "The diversification...
Aside from inherent offensiveness, the column has a real knack for stumbling on the Obliquely Offensive Reference (OOR). For example, most of the responsible media in New York have long trumpeted the tragic plight of shopping bag ladies--women who live on the street, carrying their few possessions in tattered...
In January 1973, the bishops were shaken by a second event, the Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand in most circumstances. This legal challenge to the age-old Catholic teaching that abortion is equivalent to murder forced the bishops to adopt a style of political propaganda and maneuver that...