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...fears and doubts over the planned reforms, as well as their rivalries, regional ambitions and cultural prejudices. Though pleased with the conciliatory mood of the other leaders, Quebec's Johnson still wants more autonomy and authority than his province now has. He would like to see federal power shrink and Quebec get more tax money, provincial control over publicly owned radio and TV stations and even the right to carry on relations with foreign governments. Neither Pearson nor the other leaders are willing to go quite this far to conciliate the French Canadians...
...central bank officials from ten nations at which the Europeans charted their new course. At a meeting in the elegant privacy of Château de la Muette, home of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group agreed that the wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during 1967. Thus continental Europe, which managed only a torpid 2.5% economic growth last year...
...line of questioning," remarked Martin, "indicates clearly that the economy is not too boomy at the moment." Snorted Mills: "Not too booming? It is just not booming at all!" Conceded Martin: "All right, it is not booming." With that, and the prospect that recent spending cuts will begin to shrink the huge federal deficit, many economists see considerably less reason than hitherto for a tax increase in election-year 1968. And a growing number of people in the fiscal area of the Government no longer argue that a rise is necessary to avoid disaster...
Like all such bubbles, the one in Brazil may burst, or at least shrink. Many a deed buyer, making the first visit to his acreage, has found that it is 24 hours by Jeep from the nearest city, or that he must put in roads, irrigation and other costly improvements before it has any lasting value. While a few U.S. farmers say that they can grow everything from rice to cotton in the soil of Goias and Bahia, others have found their land nearly infertile. Since homesteads are not staked out and land records in Brazil are chaotic, ownership, moreover...
...only medical students receive graduate deferments, the eligibility pool would shrink slightly--to 1,090,000--a figure still far too large for current draft needs. The most vexing problem facing the President is how to select 360,000 draftees from this pool without instituting a random selection system, specifically forbidden him by Congress. The irony of the situation is that before the new law, the President could have instituted a random selection system without Congressional approval. But now he must either get Congress to adopt a random selection plan before June or devise a stop-gap system for this...