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...Until new antismuggling laws were passed last April, lire in cash or checks could be transferred to some Swiss or Liechtenstein banks via clandestine exchange channels in Rome and Milan. Huge sums have also been sent abroad by the device of under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks...
Starting off 1977, the industry's only real problem is excess capacity to make small cars. Both GM and American Motors have been offering rebates to tempt buyers into ordering models like the Vega and Pacer, and Ford Chairman Henry Ford II has complained publicly that his company must build more small cars than it wants to in order to keep the average gas mileage of its fleet within federal standards...
...years ago in London, it is just now gaining recognition on this side of the Atlantic. Economists, foreign students from Southeast Asia and Africa, and readers of periodicals such as the Coevolution Quarterly have passed it from hand to hand. The book seems to enjoy a readership far in excess of the number of copies sold...
...revolutionary change of consciousness and character, a reawakened sense of true individualism, true freedom, true equality, a rededicated opposition to monopolies and concentrations of power, to the excess wealth and extravagant privileges that have come to be built into our way of life, a reassertion of the common people's pride in themselves...
Exiles and refugees tell sad stories of the life they left behind. Even sadder, sometimes, is the muteness of their children. They are likely to find the old ways and old language excess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable. Thus a heritage of centuries can die in a generation of embarrassed silence. The Woman Warrior gives that silence a voice...