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...surely express her gratitude that Washington has come down firmly on Britain's side in the war with Argentina. Mitterrand will restate his support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block the Siberian natural gas pipeline and begun to pursue arms control negotiations. Italian President Pertini, whose country is constructing NATO's first cruise missile base...
...latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone the consumer price index had climbed by 10.7%. Over the past year inflation has been running at a rate of 117%. There were other grim economic indicators as well. Unemployment now stands at 5.4%, a troublesome figure for socialist-minded Israel, and labor relations are in an unhappy state. Late last week employees of El Al, the national airline, went on a 24-hour strike to show their opposition to a government plan that would force the airline to shut down its operations on the Jewish Sabbath...
...first campaign dominated by television, the infirmities of Jorge Blanco's two principal rivals, Right-Winger Joaquin Balaguer, 75, and Socialist Writer-Politician Juan Bosch, 73, both former Presidents, were all too apparent. Even so, the two combative oldsters won a total of 48.7% of the vote to Jorge Blanco...
...injects a very believable image of society into our consideration of that country. A sprawling narrative of his tenure as New York Times bureau chief in Peking from 1979 to 1981, the book paints an ugly picture of the "unofficial" China lurking behind the official facade of a prosperous socialist success story. Drawing on a wide and extensive series of interviews with students, dissidents, party members, reporters, and his own observations and insightful analysis. Butterfield shows us a China with a degree of control over its people on par with the Soviet Union. He shows us a China of uneven...
...After a honeymoon period of benign cooperation with the government, unions are becoming increasingly unruly. Last month a walkout disrupted production at the country's two major automobile companies, Renault and Citroën. Laborers at both firms were demanding higher wages and other benefits. Coming from the Socialist President's natural constituency, such unrest should remind Mitterrand that support can never be taken for granted, and that in politics, seven years, not to say 14, is a very long time...