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...start. Thatcher, who made his driving debut just one year ago, was unhurt but thoroughly crushed and teary-eyed. The London press was not sympathetic: STOP SNIVELLING, MARK-YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, scolded a Daily Express headline. In Britain, one expects a stiff upper lip trom the son of the "Iron Lady...
...have been thousands of cease-fire violations, but only a few hundred "observations" by the ICC and virtually no unanimous decisions on which side was at fault. Of more than 40 formal cease-fire protests made by the South Vietnamese so far, only two have been investigated. In Giong Trom in the Mekong Delta, ICC delegates spent weeks trying to persuade the South Vietnamese district chief not to fire his artillery over their encampment. He finally moved his pieces, but persisted in firing into Viet Cong territory in violation of the ceasefire...
...marketplace in Giong Trom, an old woman complained that her nearby village was "no longer quiet." Did she mean that the Viet Cong came from time to time? "Not because they come from time to time," she replied, "but because they're there right now -all the time...
Grim Days Ahead. Florentines attacked the government for delays in relief. "How is it possible to move this mass of liquid and mud with shovels?" complained Mayor Piero Bargellini. "We need earth movers, bulldozers, trucks." In the Italian Parliament, Premier Aldo Moro was jeered-mostly trom the Communist benches-when he rose to speak. The government appropriated $320 million for emergency aid, raising the gasoline tax 6.4? per gallon...
...earlier days, a corporation was expected to stick to what it knew best. But stringent antitrust laws now discourage fast-growing companies trom mergers with companies too close to their own fields. Result: many companies are forced to move into an entirely different line in an effort to increase their profit margins. Once :hey have made such a move, they find it even easier to continue diversiying. Providence's Textron, caught in the ailing textile industry, has set a record since 1955 of 29 mergers into such fields as electronics, automotive parts, aluminum products and optical equipment. Textiles, once...