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...growth is by no means assured. To an uncomfortable ! extent, the expansion is dependent on exports, particularly to the U.S. Now that source of growth is threatened by the decline in the value of the dollar, which makes European products much more expensive in the U.S. So far, such premier exporters as West Germany and France have weathered the dollar's fall, but a further steep drop could be devastating...
...million member AFSCME announced it would back the effort of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), which has been trying for 15 years to organize 3800 Harvard support staff. It has already given the local union $500,000 and called the Harvard organizing effort their "premier organizing drive" for this year...
Harvard will be the national union's "premier organizing drive" for 1987, even though some of its past major efforts have involved the organization of almost ten times the number of workers, said Jack Howard, assistant to the AFSCME president...
Support from intellectuals and specialists is critical if reforms are to continue in industry, agriculture, science and technology, the areas of Deng's Four Modernizations. Last Monday Premier Zhao addressed 19 scientists and specialists. "The past eight years witnessed the best period for economic development," he said. "In those years Chinese intellectuals were entirely free from worry." The intellectuals are understandably skeptical and wary. One indication of their nervousness is that in recent weeks diplomats and foreign journalists have found it increasingly difficult to make contact with members of the Chinese intellectual elite...
...1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe in other regions. The town...