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Fringe Parties. Tourism, a key source of foreign earnings, has declined by an estimated 40%. There has been a rash of bankruptcies among smaller firms, and a sharp rise in unemployment is expected soon. The army of jobless will be swelled by the boatloads of refugees from the colonies that have already begun disembarking in Lisbon; airlines flying from the territories to Lisbon are booked solid for the rest of the year...
Much more than friendly chats between Gerald Ford and George Meany will be required to reduce the labor militancy that is producing a rash of strikes, and kiting wages up at an inflationary pace this year. A strong indication of labor's mood: the United Mine Workers, representing 110,000 members who dig 75% of the nation's soft coal, plans to shut down all unionized mines throughout this week. Officially, the closing is a five-day "memorial period," called by U.M.W. President Arnold Miller to commemorate the 100,000 coal miners killed on the job in this...
...send troops to Cyprus (see following story), noted that "many things have irrevocably changed." In Athens the new democratic government of Constantine Caramanlis had little choice but to accept the changes. "Mistakes have to be paid for," said Caramanlis in a reference to the former junta's rash decision to overthrow Makarios. Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros explained that "we did not go to Geneva for diplomatic glory. We went there to prevent a deterioration of the situation...
...most places, however, a chill has yet to be felt. Contrary to the expectations of civil libertarians, smut peddlers and bluestockings alike, last year's tough anti-obscenity rulings have had relatively little effect. The first few months after the Miller decision did see a rash of hasslings, raids, busts and prosecutions in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New Orleans, Tampa, Montgomery, New York, Bangor, Detroit, Chicago, Kankakee and elsewhere. Books were quietly shelved in many libraries and even burned (32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) in Drake, N. Dak. But, by and large, even smutty books...
...globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms-the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example...