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...coordinator of China's North Viet Nam aid program in 1956, and director of China's entire foreign aid program during the 1960s. A protege of Premier Chou Enlai, Fang managed to avoid being purged during the Cultural Revolution, but it was not until Teng rose to power again in 1977 that Fang achieved his present eminence...
...Communist pledge to cooperate in a three-year government economic recovery plan, for example, had been attacked by workers who felt that they would suffer from new austerity measures and wage restraints. Similarly, the Andreotti government's failure to make a dent in unemployment, which rose from 1.5 million to 1.7 million in 1978, caused the jobless to criticize Berlinguer for not pushing through employment programs...
John Paul, who rose to eminence in Communist Poland, made clear his urgent desire to eliminate priestly activism based upon Marxist dogma. The Pope emphatically rejected liberation theology, without ever using that phrase. Repeatedly emphasizing the value of each person before God, and the need for spiritual freedom, he used the term liberation in a Christianized context. To the Pope, "atheistic humanism" holds out to mankind only a half liberation, because it bases everything on economic determinism ignores spiritual dynamics. The result, he said, is that man's very being is "reduced in the worst way." Today, he said...
Through the 1960s, output per man-hour worked?the conventional, though not entirely adequate, way by which productivity is measured?rose on average about 3% a year, a healthy pace that had been maintained since shortly after World War II. In the '70s, productivity growth has averaged only about half that. Some economists long hoped that the slowdown was a cyclical fluke, caused mainly by the recessions of 1970 and 1973-75 (recessions always hurt productivity because companies run high-powered machinery at a slow pace and keep on the payroll workers who do not have much...
...short run, low productivity can create jobs as more workers are needed to supply rising demand. That happened in early 1978, when joblessness dropped much faster than production rose. But in the long run, low productivity hurts employment too. In the 1960s, it was thought that the economy could grow 4% each year without setting off a burst of demand-pull inflation. Mostly because of the collapse in productivity, the Administration now reckons the safe-growth ceiling to be 3%. An economy growing that slowly cannot create enough jobs for all the people who are looking for work...