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Similar anxieties, though often framed quite differently, have contributed to a worldwide outbreak of student activism not seen since the late 1960s. During the past few months, street demonstrations in France, Spain, Mexico, China, South Korea and elsewhere have ended a period of relative quiet on many campuses. While student complaints and causes are hardly identical, they are similar enough to reveal at least some common threads: dissatisfaction with government policies on access to higher education, on economic opportunity and on the right to dissent...
...Some observers believe the demonstrations are linked by a "secret network of the young" that involves the spontaneous sharing of goals and values among students in different countries, mainly through the media and exchanges of information. Indeed, French students have sent emissaries to meet with students in Spain, Italy and Canada. But their Asian counterparts, though perhaps inspired by events in Europe, have markedly different motives...
...match. Just two days after the President spoke on Capitol Hill, negotiators for the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community reached an eleventh-hour compromise that narrowly averted a major international trade war. Last March the E.C. effectively cut off some $400 million in U.S. grain exports to Spain after that country entered the Community. Unless adequate compensation was provided, the U.S. said, it would impose crippling 200% duties at 12:01 a.m. last Friday on such Community exports as British gin, French cognac and Dutch cheese. Finally, about four hours before the deadline last week, a settlement...
...kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...force consists of about 22 warships and 1900 more Marines were moved out of Spain yesterday to join the battle fleet...