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...other occasions, it later developed, his costume was quite different. Last July police caught him in a stolen car. He was wearing a jacket studded with nails at the shoulders and on the lapels, and had with him a rubber mask, a woman's wig and several lengths of rope. "I belong to a religious secret society," he explained feebly. "I'm on my way to a sex orgy...
Traditionally supporters of freer trade, many of labor's most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
...will soon be both willing and able to earn their own way. That is, of course, a tall order. Even at the peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh during the "first Indochina war," South Viet Nam derived some income from exports of rice and rubber. But now many of the plantations are in ruins, rice is imported from the U.S., and the leading export is scrap metal left behind by the departing U.S. military. Exports bring in a bare $16 million a year, while imports are running at an annual rate of $700 million...
Last week's coup was staged as signs of trouble and unease were growing. The economy is declining as a result of lower U.S. military spending and aid and falling world prices for Thailand's chief exports: tin, rubber and rice. Crime is on the rise, including muggings and rapes. Bangkok has been the scene of a series of strikes, and only two weeks ago of a student riot, caused primarily by interschool rivalries, in which 158 youths were arrested. Rightly or wrongly, many Thais tended to blame the new institutions of democracy for preventing the government from...
...does not oppose all technology. Indeed, he recognizes the need to develop nonpolluting systems of land transportation, for example, and ways of returning garbage directly to the soil. But he urges a return wherever possible to products that are kind to the environment, and suggests the use of natural rubber instead of synthetic material, and soap instead of detergents. That approach would mean the closing down of huge industries and would be immensely costly-at least $600 billion in the U.S. alone, Commoner estimates, or more likely $40 billion annually for 25 years...