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...Their Peril. Given French self-interest, there was some logic to De Gaulle's view. Britain's entry would make the Common Market's eventual goal-the political as well as economic unity of its members-more difficult to achieve. British entry would probably be followed by the entry of some EFTA nations and would thus both destroy the exclusivity of the Six and almost certainly lead to what De Gaulle called "numerous revisions" in the charter. De Gaulle fears that British entry might, in fact, be the first irretrievable step toward allowing the whole world...
...Those who resist change," said a disappointed Prime Minister Wilson last week, "do so at their own peril...
Back to Guideposts. To forestall that peril, incumbent CEA Chairman Gardner Ackley last week called for a "revival and strengthening" of the Administration's moribund wage-price guideposts. "The breathing space in price pressures will not last," he warned. "An upward trend in costs has been masked by declining prices for food and raw materials. And last year's price increases have still not worked their way fully through our cost-and-price structure...
...Bulge? For U.S. military planners, I Corps and the DMZ were the most worrisome peril points-particularly with 65,000 main-force enemy troops and local guerrillas infesting the five provinces and at least 35,000 North Vietnamese regulars poised just above the DMZ. Two weeks ago, the Communists overran and briefly occupied the provincial capital of Quang Tri. Since then they have beamed warnings at the ancient imperial capital of Hué that it may be next on their list...
Potential aerial collisions were uppermost in the minds of a group of air-traffic controllers who last week publicly charged that aviation in the U.S. is reaching a "point of public peril." Speaking for the National Association of Government Employees, which represents some 3,000 of the 14,000 air-traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Agency, ex-Controller Stanley Lyman charged that economies in the FAA had resulted in "seriously underequipped, undermanned, undercompensated and underadministered" traffic-control towers and centers. "We are fortunate that we don't have the collisions now," said Lyman...