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...From whom? If we had so suicidal a trade union system as the British, our mark would be just as tuberculous as the pound. If we had as many unsolved social problems as the French, then we would have as much unrest and -as in May in Paris-a ruinous rebellion...
...there was a bigger problem: "All the indications show the necessity of a mutation of our society." But, he warned, that mutation must be orderly. "Otherwise we will tumble through civil war to the most ruinous adventures and usurpations." For nearly 30 years, said De Gaulle, he had led France toward its destiny; "I am ready to do it again." But, he added, "this time, especially this time, I need?yes, I need?the French people to tell me that this is their wish." It was an extraordinary and almost touching admission from De Gaulle. Then he explained that...
...world's people live in the great arc of eleven nations that stretches beneath the southern rim of Russia and China. From Pakistan to Indonesia, the countries of South Asia seem, however, to have more than two-thirds of the world's problems: grinding poverty, ruinous population growth, feeble economies, the burden of colonial pasts and, in Southeast Asia, armed Communist aggressors. In a new book published this week, Asian Drama, Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal suggests that the bulk of South Asia's troubles lie not so much in history or lack of natural resources...
...ruinous to the land is strip min ing for coal, Kentucky's most profit able product, that huge swaths of the Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides...
...social security system, which is $600 million in the red, French workers, he said, will now pay more taxes and receive fewer benefits. In addition, he announced, he has imposed compulsory profit sharing on all French companies, a measure rejected by labor as meaningless, opposed by big business as ruinous, and considered by most of his Cabinet members to be frivolous and unworkable. Both decrees may well lead to a general strike when French workers return from the beaches in the fall...