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...prudent-had become convinced that the U.S. and its partners could not much longer maintain the $35 price. With a balance of payments deficit of $3.6 billion last year and a war in Viet Nam that is costing some $30 billion annually, the U.S. has seen its gold reserves shrink by 50% from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion. Now, believed the speculators, the U.S. was nearing the end of its gold tether. If the U.S. could no longer sell gold to all takers at $35 an ounce and the price were allowed to rise to meet the demand...
Banishing the Censors. Dubček is swiftly putting into action a program that his supporters promise will shrink the role of the Communist Party and bring a semblance of democracy to Czechoslovak public life. Among the reforms currently being debated in the party Presidium is one that would make the Czechoslovak National Assembly a representative body rather than a party rubber stamp. Dubček, who has heavy backing among white-collar workers and young technicians, is also expected to further free the economy from bureaucratic controls...
...first of the "five great principles," McCarthy says "that America must not shrink from war when liberty is at stake; but that America must not conduct war against the poor, the backward, and the primitive...
...They told me to see a shrink, but I didn't want to be an SDSer
They told me to see a shrink, but I don't want to change. I like myself the way I am. Just because I can't adapt to Harvard doesn't mean in itself that I should go to the shrink and get adapted. What may be best for me is to adapt myself to something better