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Without a Panacea. To relieve the growing strain on the IMF, the Group of Ten, meeting last week in The Hague, agreed to provide that organization with $770 million. Meanwhile, the world money markets continued to show encouraging signs of greater stability, Although the price of gold jumped to a record high in Paris-where the government controls on the export of francs were causing Frenchmen to turn to bullion-free-market trading elsewhere remained relatively calm...
...commend you on your fine Essay on student protest [May 3]. In an age of uncertainty and doubt it is all too easy for students to latch on to a certain philosophy and use it as their panacea. Too often this philosophy becomes dogma, blinds its proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually...
Promise and Panacea...
...neither escalation nor negotiation; he promises peace in the Pacific, but gives us no clue as to a solution, an idea, or one single creative thought in that direction. He faults the Administration for urban violence, but comes up with not even a productive comment, let alone a panacea...
...other police forces have tried. The major difference, they say, is the amount of publicity he received. Headley does not entirely disagree, notes that the publicity may well have been an important factor in the initial month's drop. Indeed, he does not claim to have found the panacea to his city's and the nation's ever-increasing crime problem...