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...billion in January alone, may surpass last year's record $14 billion. As a result, the franc, which has already been devalued twice under Mitterrand, seems almost certain to be devalued again, even though the Bank of France has been spending some $150 million a week to shore up the currency. Meanwhile, the Mitterrand government's austerity program, which imposed limits on wage increases, hikes in the prices of public services, and curbs on welfare benefits, has done little more than stir resentment...
...former Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa, I find it as difficult to agree with Derek Freeman's narrow analysis of the Samoan culture as I did with Margaret Mead's. As Anthropologist Bradd Shore accurately pointed out, Samoans can lead contradictory lives. Moreover, they are very adept at telling people what they wish to hear, saying one thing and doing another...
...interest of statesmanship, the President deleted a few surefire applause lines from the final draft, including a poke at the press that began, "Breadlines may make headlines, but. . ." In order to shore up his sagging support among a wide variety of voting blocs,* he paid homage to the needs of different interest groups. For the restive New Right he asserted his fealty to the school-prayer amendment (but did not mention anti-abortion legislation); for women he pledged a reform of discriminatory federal laws and pension rules; for farmers he promised help with debt financing; for blacks he promised support...
...incomes from the fund, which represents the legacy of a member of the North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society of Plan-dome. New York, will provide scholarship aid to students, funds for continuing education, and support for ministerial training and religion education program for Unitarian Universalists...
Maintaining the pound may prove similarly difficult. With last week's slide, the value of sterling has dropped some 13% since Oct. 12, when the bout of jitters began. The Labor Party's shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Peter Shore, called the decline "yet further evidence of the failure and incompetence of this government's economic policies...