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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...product of necessity, was born last week. Even its authors have reservations about its chances for success. The latest wage-price control program in the Nixon Administration's 23-month alternately hot and cold war against high living costs is a temporary holding action. It is designed to stem the spread of food shortages while partially holding off the pent-up forces of inflation until they are weakened by waning demand (see box next page...
...stem the exports, the U.S. dispatched agents to Thailand, where by 1970 they established an undercover network. There in the north, U.S. and Thai agents set up observation posts on all the main roads leading south from the tri-border area. Thanks to their reports, Thai police, to date, have been able to seize over 20 tons of opium...
...population of Atlanta is only 52% black, but 80% of its schoolchildren are black. To stem the continuing white flight to suburban schools (4,686 white elementary students left the system over the past year), the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter struck a compromise in a 15-year-old desegregation suit against the Atlanta school board that leaves over half of the city's schools virtually all-black and could become a model for other cities seeking to skirt extensive busing of schoolchildren. In return, the school board guaranteed the hiring of Atlanta's first black superintendent and other high...
...Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain living costs threaten to soar as high as 12% or even 15% this year. Switzerland is bracing for 8.4% inflation this year, and West Germany will be happy to get away with 8%. To help stem a flood of inflation-feeding foreign currency into Germany, the government last week revalued the Deutsche Mark upward by 5½% against other Common Market monies, jeopardizing the prospects for European monetary union...
Even in 1972, when the activism was given a decidedly local flavor by black students attempting to force Harvard to sell its shares of Gulf Oil stock, the war added to the tumult. Nixon's decision to increase the bombing and to mine Haiphong Harbor in an attempt to stem the North Vietnamese offensive coincided nicely with the blacks' seizure of Mass Hall. The war reinforced the unrest, swelling the size of the picket lines that circled constantly around the embattled Administration building...