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...dance world has been reverberating for some time with tales of unrest and unhappiness at American Ballet Theater, the nation's premier dance company. American members of A.B.T. felt upstaged and upset by the arrival of Soviet Defectors Natalia Makarova (in 1970) and Mikhail Baryshnikov (in 1974). This fall A.B.T. recruited three more foreign superstars: Stuttgart Ballet's Marcia Haydée and two Italian artists, Carla Fracci and Paolo Bortoluzzi. Thus nobody quite believed it last week when, on the eve of the opening of the company's six-week Manhattan season, A.B.T.'s American...
...over Kerr's action, strikers shut down slaughterhouses, construction sites and steelworks all over Australia. But before long, Australian voters decided that Whitlam's firing was not the main issue after all. Opinion polls showed that voters were more concerned about bread-and-butter issues-inflation, industrial unrest and unemployment-than the constitutional question posed by Whitlam's sacking...
Because of the worldwide recession, the economies of the two countries have slowed considerably in the past year; both have trade deficits and mounting debts. Yet these difficulties are probably temporary. A long-range problem may be unrest created by harsh working conditions, especially in the factories: hours are long (averaging 48 a week in Korea, 54 a week in Taiwan), pay is low ($50 per month starting wages in Korea, $35 in Taiwan), and unions, insofar as they exist, have little power to combat managerial excesses. But this is typical of all countries in the early stages of industrialization...
Bigeard estimates that there are about 500 active left-wing extremists in the French army organized into 60 revolutionary cells. Their rebellious appeals fall on fertile soil at the parade grounds. Despite government attempts to quiet unrest in the ranks and improve morale by tripling the pay of draftees (from 600 to $1.80 a day), French troops are the lowest paid in Europe. Career officers also complain about low pay and the slow pace of advancement in spite of recent efforts to accelerate promotions...
...enduring unrest in the French army is all the more dangerous because of the chilling example of Portugal. Since the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, governments in Western Europe have been scrutinizing their armed forces-once regarded as citadels of conservatism-for dread signs of "Portugalization." French government officials believe that leftists have taken advantage of the recent military malaise to alienate the army. Defense Minister Bourges claims that Portuguese officers have been dispatched to France to spread revolution in the army and that more than 100 Frenchmen of draft age have gone to Portugal to learn subversive tactics...