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...economics, however, was the decision to raise basic industrial prices. For years the prices of coal, steel, gas and fuel oil have been kept far below cost in order to forge a heavy industrial base. Now that Russia can afford to ogle the age of affluence, it needs not rigid central planning but the flexibility of a market economy using such Western techniques as profits to measure performance and buyers' wants to dictate output. Kosygin has promised to switch all Russian enterprise away from rigid central planning by 1968. Already 673 firms employing some 2,000,000 workers have...
When it fought with U.N. forces in the Congo, the Nigerian army's 5th Battalion took special pride in its rigid military discipline. That was only three years ago, but as far as Nigeria is concerned, it is the remote past. Last week the 5th's proud tradition collapsed in an orgy of mass savagery that rivaled anything the Congo had ever known...
...groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose palaces are made of mud and whose law is adamantine...
Some controls are certainly necessary, for governmental indifference to the problems of human experimentation would be lamentable. But over-zealous application of rigid regulations is equally inexcusable...
Yesterday he commented that the sophomore curriculum appeared too rigid. Many students, he said, spend the year just finishing up their language and general education requirements and starting their concentration requirements. "A guy with a four course load has very few options," he said...