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...India boiled into street demonstrations throughout Pakistan, rumors of an impending coup d'état by younger army officers against the government of President Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan swept the country. As expected, Yahya last week became the highest-ranking casualty of the war: to forestall further unrest, he hastily surrendered his powers to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 43, the ambitious leader of West Pakistan's powerful People's Party. Bhutto, the first civilian to lead his country in 13 years, launched his presidency with a move calculated to appease the wounded feelings of his nation: he sacked...
Further, the funding proposal cited the kinds of data collections with which CAM would work: "world economic statistics," "U.S. economic statistics," "international armament expenditures and trends," "public opinion polls from all countries," "characteristics of local conflicts and limited was crises," "data on youth movements," "mass unrest and political movements under conditions of rapid social change," "peasant attitudes and behavior," and many more...
Germany's worst strike in eight years is only the latest example of the contagion of labor unrest sweeping Europe. In Britain, strikes have cost 13 million work days this year. In Sweden, a siege of labor trouble affected almost every segment of the work force, including teachers, civil servants and army officers. The situation has been worst of all in Italy where, since the au-tunno caldo (hot autumn) of 1969, total labor costs have risen...
...Labor unrest has become endemic in Italy. Last week's strikers included tens of thousands of workers in Milan, 50,000 civil servants and some cinema actors and customs inspectors. Even the employees of the Treasury Ministry walked out for two days, creating confusion at the meetings of the Group of Ten and leaving only one Xerox machine in operation for all delegations...
This region is one of the hardest to gauge. Because of farm unrest over low crop and livestock prices at a time of rising costs, Nixon is vulnerable in states where farmers could make the difference. The Midwest likes Muskie's soothing style and Humphrey's farm and labor expertise. It distrusts the shrillness and controversy that surround Kennedy, and he would be least likely among Democrats to take full advantage of Nixon's weakness. Kennedy could probably carry Minnesota, Michigan and South Dakota?but they might...