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...mid-May, Schmidt had to threaten to resign if his followers decided to thwart the NATO commitment. State and local chapters of the Social Democrats have already tried to do so in Baden-Württemberg and in South Hesse. But while Schmidt is feeling the strain, he is still fighting. Says he: "Do not be deceived by the activities of the young socialists, and do not overestimate them. Angst has become chic. There is no doubt that the majority of [West] Germans and a large majority of the S.P.D. support our foreign and security policies...
Last week eleven Krome Avenue North residents were herded through a quick immigration hearing in Miami, then put on a jet back to Port-au-Prince. They were the first to be sent home under a new U.S. policy of deporting all Haitians who have arrived illegally since mid-May. (Last year more than 20,000 entered the U.S. legitimately.) Seventy-six more Haitians have been found similarly unacceptable and ordered to leave, but await judicial review of their cases, which will begin this week. If the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way-as a Cabinet task force will...
...first quarter. The buying power of the American worker is now lower than at any time since 1972. The Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators declined 4.8% in April, the largest monthly drop in the 32 years that the figures have been kept. Unemployment claims in mid-May rose more sharply than during any week since 1967. Productivity fell for the fifth consecutive quarter from January through March, the second longest downturn on record...
...Howard Mumford Jones, Lowell Professor of Humanities Emeritus and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1934 to 1944, died in mid-May. He was renowned as one of the leading scholars of all aspects of American culture...
...rattling. It's to our mutual interest to reach an agreement on nuclear arms and to find a way to live on this planet together." Muskie may soon be talking to the Soviets; plans are being discussed for a meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Vienna in mid-May...