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When the government began to draft doctors, they staged a gigantic slowdown, demanding that the army requisition their cars or provide military transport, supply all equipment right down to little black bags. Since 80% of Belgium's anesthetists are women, and not subject to military service, many operations could not be performed despite the call-up. An army medical officer, one of some 20 flown in from Belgian forces in West Germany to help, declared: "I am ashamed of being a doctor after seeing what is going on here." At week's end, two doctors and a technician...
Russia's East European satellites, also adjusting to an economic slowdown, are increasingly asserting their own national identities and seeking warmer relations with the West. Soviet Russia, after all the years of proud self-sufficiency, now faces the humiliation of having to buy its food from the capitalist rival. Moscow's hopeful plan is to spend up to $10 billion for Western chemical plants in the next few years...
Harvard's slowdown at the end of the first half was a bad omen. After the half-time break. Penn pulled away with ease with its fast breaks and outside shooting. Near the end of the third quarter the Quakers led 59 to 48; they began to stall and forced Harvard out of its zone and into a man-to-man defense...
...Foods and Grumman-have already left Switzerland because of local restrictions. If the Swiss Parliament adopts the federal government's tough new program next month, as it is expected to, the exodus of U.S. companies is likely to increase. But the Swiss seem to prefer a possible drastic slowdown in their economy to the risk that foreigners might bring on further inflation...
...small companies will be pinched hardest. Hundreds of tiny subcontractors, many of them in the vulnerable electronics industry, will be hurt if prime contractors are forced to do more work themselves to keep their own shops busy. As for the big contractors, their main worry is that the spending slowdown will hobble the growth rates they want to keep...