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Untold Truths. While it continued, economic growth solved domestic social problems almost automatically; this allowed the postwar titans to play their roles-Adenauer to bring a shattered Germany back into the West, De Gaulle to play savior to a nation torn first by war and then by withdrawal from Algeria. Yet over the past year or two, real growth in the industrial nations has faded. It has been replaced by mere inflation-now vastly stimulated by the rising cost of oil and other natural resources. As growth disappears, social issues reemerge. Britain, where a coal miners' strike over government...
...concerned about who is minding the nation, he has updated the eternal quest for a hero and a leader. His candidate, Navy Commander Charles Rice, might have been tailored by a market-research computer. A former astronaut and moon walker, Rice is also part Old Testament prophet, New Testament savior, Oliver Cromwell, Brownshirt, Mr. Clean and Vic Tanny...
...state has gone through a devaluation," writes Columnist Joel Marcus in the daily Ha'aretz, "a devaluation in leadership ability, devaluation in spirit, in values, in morale, in faith and self-confidence." Traditionally respected as the savior of the nation, even the army has come under attack for incompetence. Following a hue and cry about the lack of cold-weather gear for soldiers on the frosty Golan Heights, civilian volunteers and even tourists went up to the front to distribute American parkas, long underwear and woolen socks. The government is understandably apprehensive about the upcoming report of a blue...
...even stranger flight of fancy is Berg's courtship of Libyan Strongman Gaddafi. Last spring, the Mo Letters began to talk about "godly socialism" and to describe Gaddafi as the savior who will ignite the young and rescue them from those twin sources of evil, godless Communism and American materialism. The Moslem leader, in return, has commended the C.O.G. on Libyan radio and has invited a son and daughter of Berg to visit him in Tripoli...
...that money gone, Lockheed is in a financial tailspin again, facing what Chairman Daniel Haughton calls "a straightforward matter of the possible need for additional cash." That understates the case: Lockheed could well become the first corporate victim of the energy crisis, and this time there is no savior on the immediate horizon...