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...optimistic "State of the City" speech last week, Mayor Stokes reported that 2,000 junked cars have been removed from the streets, and that 28,000 street lights are being bought. A recent health levy will generate an additional $320 million in federal, state and local funds over the next four years, and for the first time in years, thanks to a federal grant, Cleveland will have an unpolluted municipal beach. Not everything, to be sure, is perfect: voters have hiked police and firemen's salaries, putting even greater pressure on Stokes to push through a boost...
Forty Abreast. The country's major labor unions opened the week with an illegal but half-successful one-day general strike. More than half a million Frenchmen-led by student militants who were joined by workers, teachers and opposition politicians-staged one of the largest protest marches in Paris history. Forty abreast, they paraded for five hours through midcity, singing the Communist Internationale and chanting such slogans as "De Gaulle resign" and "De Gaulle to the museum." No violence marred that procession; police stayed carefully away. But in provincial cities, cops and students fought battles with tear...
...commercial ties with Russia, which expects to get cut-rate prices on everything from oil to agricultural products. While 80% of Rumanian exports went to fellow Communists eight years ago, the West is expected to absorb 50% this year. Rumania recently took the unprecedented step of placing a $24 million aircraft contract with a British firm instead of with the Russians. Now the Rumanians are even negotiating to join the Washington-based World Bank-the 107-nation lending organization of which no Communist country except Yugoslavia is a member...
...longer run, he questions whether his comparatively small (pop. 12 million) country can afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...
...gross national product). That is only half the rate of U.S. defense spending. But Conservative Gorton cannot easily ignore Australia's long tradition of small military budgets-or the Labor Party opposition dedicated to keeping them that way. Gorton has also expressed misgivings about spending some $250 million for 24 of the U.S.'s controversial F-111 fighter-bombers ordered by Holt's predecessor, Sir Robert Menzies...