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Last week Lyndon Johnson took both aspects into account with a balance-of-payments message aimed at lessening the payments problem without sharply restricting capital movements. The message was milder than many had expected. Another example of Johnson compromise, it combined some moderate restraints on the flow of dollars abroad with an appeal to the patriotism of U.S. industry. "The contribution of American capital to the world's growth and prosperity has been immense," said Johnson. "But our balance-of-payments deficit leaves me no choice." Since the U.S. feels that it cannot make major cuts in foreign...
...been given something to think about." In the thinking of most of the party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary: "We have had a warning that we must produce some forceful leadership...
...social change in America. Harvard Negroes were saying quite blunty last spring that they were "losing the battle for civil rights," or at least that the movement had "reached an impasse." And many regard the "Negro Revolution, which is another name for the spread of nationalism in its milder forms, as a necessary precursor to any real victory in the fight for equality...
...social change in America. Harvard Negroes were saying quite blunty last spring that they were "losing the battle for civil rights," or at least that the movement had "reached an impasse." And many regard the "Negro Revolution," which is another name for the spread of nationalism in its milder forms, as a necessary precursor to any real victory in the fight for equality...
...dominate the coalition had still not resolved the differences that kept them split during the previous six-month center-left government. The Christian Democrats want to pull out all stops to check Italy's 6% inflation, with tight wage and credit controls. The Socialists want to combine a milder anti-inflation program with a five-year economic development plan and an urban land-expropriation scheme to halt speculation and build low-cost housing...