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NEITHER the wage-price freeze nor presidential exhortation was enough to hold back a wave of labor unrest that swept the country last week. Most serious was the walkout of longshoremen on the East and Gulf coasts, which, together with the three-month-old strike of West Coast dockers, closed down virtually all U.S. deep-sea ports for the first time in history. In addition, a strike of miners brought practically all soft coal production to a halt. And the possibility of a crippling work stoppage hung over the nation's railroads. The disruptions are both a rebuke...
...Signs of Unrest. As Foreign Minister, LÓpez Bravo has as one of his priorities "to bring Spain into Western Europe." He also wants to help create a "Mediterranean conscience" among the 17 nations bordering that sea to help bring about a balanced and mutual reduction of forces in the area. He indicated to Rademaekers that Spain is breaking away from overreliance on the U.S. As for Communist countries, "we want relations independent of ideologies...
Because of the general unrest that will likely follow, most observers see the election farce as an important propaganda victory for the Viet Cong. At a time when the U.S. and South Vietnamese armed forces have finally achieved decisive military superiority within South Viet Nam (at least for the time being), the country is no closer to a viable, broadly based non-Communist government now than it was in the days of Ngo Dinh Diem...
...taper off at the highly visible elite colleges and universities that often set the pace. Instead, last year's turmoil became "diffused," moving to the "invisible" campuses that newsmen rarely visit and educational leaders seldom discuss: public four-year colleges, Roman Catholic colleges and two-year private colleges. "Unrest," says Bayer, "has permeated into the Podunks...
...challenge is born of the necessity of easing the poverty and political unrest of the Northeast, where nearly a quarter of the 30 million people live on the edge of starvation. The government's high hopes are that the highway will open up the natural wealth of the entire 2,700,000-sq.-mi. Amazon basin-an area almost the size of the continental U.S.-and provide vast new resettlement lands for 500,000 homesteaders over the next five years. Says Transport Minister Mario Andreazza: "We have to conquer Brazil completely, and this will do it. Transamazonia will...