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Furthermore, selling multi-billion dollar hardware to other nations increases our own economic problems. Just as the Vietnam War boom led to sharp inflation in the early 1970's, the expenditure of huge sums of money by foreign governments on American arms often causes similar difficulties abroad. Revenue that could be spent on jobs and food instead goes out of the country in large quantities, precipitating a trade imbalance. One popular method of offsetting this problem for many Third World countries is to raise the prices of oil or raw material exports, so that the inflationary effects rebound...
...first problem with this "solution" is the continuation of the "Band-Aid" approach to our economic woes--a practice that becomes increasingly popular in election years. Recent studies have suggested that plants involved in arms manufacture can be converted to such necessary industries as mass transportation, solar energy, and solid waste disposal, using many of the present technologies. The federal government alone could create this change, first by reducing its own purchases of arms and restricting the sale of U.S. arms around the globe, then by offering loans to firms and communities planning conversion of munitions works. This would...
...order to establish such a program Americans must first realize that the greatest threat to our national security is not military, but rather our parasitical dependence on potentially hostile nations for energy. The solution to this problem, instead of selling fighter planes for a quick "fix" of cash that can buy a few more barrels, is a concentrated program of developing alternate energy sources (such as solar or synthetic fuels) and curbing our wasteful energy habits (by the increased use of mass transportation, for example). Only by viewing this as a crucial matter of "national security" can such a comprehensive...
Quincy House Committee members are circulating a petition this week calling attention to overcrowded conditions and requesting both the admissions and housing offices to alleviate the problem throughout the housing system...
...Tuesday night, commenting from Buffalo, N.Y.. where she was on a promotional trip for the AIAW, Walsh listed a number of reasons for her decision. It took her a while to get to the crux of the problem as she sees...