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...margarine, would slash by one-third the U.S.'s $500 million annual soybean exports to the Common Market. The tax plan was shelved after the U.S. threatened retaliation-by raising tariffs on imported European cars, for example-but as long as the "butterberg" grows, the bitterness will persist...
Forced industrialization has left scars on the country's economy. Housing shortages persist because industrial construction has priority. Though the average Rumanian's material lot is somewhat better than it was five years ago, his monthly pay is still only about $67 and the goods he can buy are generally shoddy because better-quality products of farm and factory are sold abroad. Meat is a once-a-week delicacy and Bucharest butcher shops offer mostly sausage. Lately, Rumanian planners have begun to worry that factories may be pulling so many workers off the under-mechanized collective farms that...
...mentioned by pontiffs since Clement VII hurled the accusation at Henry VIII more than four centuries ago. To many Vatican observers, the Holy Week statements suggest that the Pope has taken as much as he can from the dissenters and is ready to deliver an ultimatum to those who persist in ecclesiastical rebellion...
...decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since the 1968 election: "We hear that the war is going well; the enemy is tiring; if only we persist in the present course, there will be victory." Continued McGovern: "The new Commander in Chief must grasp what his predecessor learned to his sorrow-that in any continuance of the war in Viet Nam lies the seed of national tragedy and the certainty of personal political disaster...
...statement presumes that students violate "academic freedom" by demanding a voice in the selection and content of courses. Students are, however, members of the academic community. As universities persist in offering courses which are irrelevant, offensive and even intolerable, students justly will be stepping up their demands for change and for meaningful student participation to guarantee implementation of necessary change. Those who argue for Faculty hierarchical; prerogatives merely are defending the status quo, not academic freedom...