Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon Lulu becomes as buggy as his friend. He turns rabidly political, delivers fiery speeches about the necessities of industrial reform, resistance and strike. For his pains, his mistress leaves him and the police beat him up. In politics as in work, Lulu's greatest quality- his enthusiasm-is eventually turned against...
...study is based on information from campaign reports obtained under the 1971 Federal Campaign Reform...
...since we learn later that his grandfather's real name was Bergmann! (The latter arrived poor from Galicia and within five years owned already all the pubs and breweries in town!) In a style reminiscent of the Nazi era or more recently of General Brown. Pludek presents the Czechoslovak reform movement of 1968 as only a part of a large. Zionist plot, which started with the 1967 six-day war in the Middle East and was to end with "the seizure of the government of the major world powers...
...Prime Minister Edward Heath provoked a showdown in 1973 with the miners' union over their wage demands, and lost. His defeat set the stage for Laborite Harold Wilson's return to power. The Labor Party, which is heavily dependent on union votes, is not even trying to reform any labor practices that preserve jobs. Instead, left-wing members of the party are using the present crisis to accelerate the pace of state control of British industry, although 30 years of nationalization have hardly helped to make the economy more efficient...
...free-trade pledge, but Britain's vote, at least, is in doubt. The grim facts of recession can overwhelm the best of intentions, as Australia has already proved. After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government took office in 1972, it fulfilled an election pledge for tariff reform by slashing levies 25% across the board. As late as last December, Whitlam was telling Europeans that "a retreat into economic isolation is no answer for us or any other nation." But even as he spoke, his government was beginning to consider re-establishing stiff import quotas and tariffs...