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...putting into practice a program of economic austerity that is the only cure for Italy's unemployment and inflation (20 per cent, according to recent figures). During the recent election campaigns, the PCI backed a program of much-needed social reforms: new hospitals and schools, more housing, and a crackdown on the wealthy industrialists who habitually evade their income tax. Perhaps most important, the PCI offered an effective alternative to the politics of corruption and scandal that have become the trademark...
...recent events in India, the third-world state in which the Soviets have the greatest economic, political and ideological investment. The strengthening of Mrs. Gandhi's government during the emergency, for instance, has reduced her dependence on the Moscow-lining Communist Party of India. The government's crackdown on some trade union groups, and its efforts to shore up the long-neglected private sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking...
...exception: the P.C.I, insists upon national planning). Like everyone else, Peggio wants better public administration, a more efficient tax system, better controls over public spending, an end to Italy's massive borrowing abroad, investment in labor-intensive industries as well as in the depressed Mezzogiorno, and a further crackdown on the flight of capital...
...demonstrations can expect head bashings from Spain's 65,000-man civil guard and 40,000 armed police, who are under Fraga's control. "If the opposition wants to make trouble in the streets," warns Fraga, "I will give it back to them." Generally, however, the police crackdown seems to be selective, and members of the so-called Bunker, a term Spaniards borrowed from English to denote Franco-era hardliners, are clearly...
...investigation, a San Diego grand jury indicted Contreras and six other Mexicans, one Canadian and eight Americans, as well as three Mexican firms, for peddling the contraband drug in the U.S. through a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation supplying some 10,000 cancer victims a day. It was the biggest crackdown yet against a drug that has a strong and persistent following even though, in the opinion of virtually all U.S. cancer specialists, it offers no real medical benefits...