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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson's government v. only 22% who approve. Most of the disapproval centers around domestic policies: 84% were unhappy over the rising cost of living. A strike by 38,500 workers against Ford Motor Co. was settled last week, but the 24-day work stoppage cost Britain $60 million in exports. Wilson himself has called the union walkout irresponsible. He is furious because the loss will have to be recouped by tightening the budget or by further limiting imports...
...strikes; on one day last week, 2,500,000 employees walked off their jobs. Some invoked gherao, a tactic borrowed from India in which workers barricade employers in their offices until wage demands are met. Since the government had set the pace by awarding civil servants an $80 million pay raise, it might be some time before the labor unrest could be quelled...
...President and rubber-stamp National Assembly to 80,000 popularly elected village elders and landlords. "I tried to evolve a system that was too idealistic or too unrealistic," Ayub said of the arrangement, which was based on the fact that four-fifths of Pakistan's 125 million people are illiterate. Still, Ayub was now prepared to clear the way for a parliamentary system of the sort that governed Pakistan before his takeover in 1958. He urged his guests to put off their demands for other reforms until a new Parliament could be elected...
...close this year for lack of funds. In Detroit, eight schools have already announced closing, and 42 others have been told that they must decide between consolidation and shutting down. In Philadelphia, the Catholic school system has mounted a mammoth fund-raising drive to head off a possible $10 million deficit next year. In at least half a dozen states, parochial-school lobbies are badgering their state legislatures for some kind of immediate help. It is needed: last year alone, 637 Catholic schools in the U.S. shut their doors, and the total will be higher...
...public schools. It is no bargain for the taxpayer when a Catholic parent decides that he can no longer afford the $100 or more in yearly tuition that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official in New York estimated that transfers into public schools will add $30 million to the state's education bill this year, perhaps $50 million next year. If all nonpublic schools in Wisconsin were to close, the taxpayers' burden there would be increased by about $230 million a year...