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Health officials, though unsure exactly what role the powder played in the Ardennes deaths and those reported elsewhere in France, confiscated supplies of the suspect preparation. They are also considering legal action against the manufacturer. The crackdown will protect infants from bad batches of Bebe, but offers no protection against harmful additives in other preparations. Like most countries, France has no laws controlling the contents of cosmetics and hygiene products...
...striking at phony charters by requiring most charter passengers to produce round-trip tickets before they leave-a rule that prevents consolidators from selling vouchers that may or may not be honored. A crackdown by British authorities has sharply cut the number of flights by British supplemental lines, which had been active in booking questionable charters for U.S. consolidators. As a result, some of New York City's biggest consolidators have abruptly gone out of business, and many of their customers, caught in the U.S. or Europe with return-trip vouchers, have had to find other means of getting...
...Coexistence. The Prague trials are part of an overall pattern of political crackdown throughout the Soviet bloc (TIME, July 10). Many Western statesmen have hoped that East-West détente would lead to political relaxation in the Communist countries. The effect so far has been the opposite. Communist leaders throughout the bloc are seeking to immunize their people from the possibly liberalizing contamination that could result from closer economic and cultural contact with the West. Soviet Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov has warned that détente will actually mean a sharpening of the political tensions between the Communist...
...minority platform planks ?against busing, against a school-prayer amendment, against a plea for capital punishment, against a crackdown on welfare eligibility...
Despite a recent crackdown by the Saigon government, neither desertion nor draft evasion carries any great stigma among most South Vietnamese, who are weary of a war that has gone on for 25 years. One reason is that family allegiance has traditionally been recognized as the highest loyalty, greater even than that due to one's country. Men like Tran Van Hai are protected by a closely knit community that admires their struggle to avoid military service. Another reason is the pervasive corruption that permits all but the poor to buy their way out of army duty...