Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORLD). While the fighting did not immediately involve U.S. interests-indeed the U.S. could take some ironic satisfaction from this conflict among the Communist powers, and in Viet Nam of all places-the prospect of a wider war was deeply disturbing. If the Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will not get involved in a conflict between Asian Communist states," Carter promised last week. But the only remedies he offered were those of the mediator-"to express our deep concern ... to encourage restraint...
Viet Nam's economic problems were greatly aggravated by the expulsion of 200,000 ethnic Chinese in the past nine months. The Chinese were targeted because of their wide spread involvement in the black market; but they constituted Viet Nam's major entrepreneurial class. They managed the rice trade, the major ports, the distribution systems and several key industries-notably coal...
...that some stations are either closing early or limiting sales. Airline flights continue to be affected; last week an Eastern Air Lines plane carrying Chairman Frank Borman from Miami to Atlanta was diverted to Tampa to take on fuel. These spot shortages will probably become more acute and will spread when warm weather leads to more driving and the Energy Department moves to ensure that no one region is disproportionately affected. The loss of "sweet" low-sulfur Iranian crude will hit supplies of premium and unleaded gas especially hard...
Ultimately, the best hope for beating inflation is not to browbeat industry and unions but to deal with the inflationary plague that is spread by the Government. Certainly wage and price restraint is important, and Stage II is better than outright controls. But excessive Government spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would...
Some scholars think that this kind of writing may be a reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...