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...sign of country music's robust health is that it can now tolerate high jinks and a good spoofing. My Girl Bill is beginning to get considerable air play, and in it Jim Stafford raises the rare-for country, at least-specter of homosexuality before he eases out with a trick ending. Composer-Singer Martin Mull, who satirized rock in Dueling Tubas, turns to country in a new album called Normal. One song, Jesus Christ Football Star, pokes fun at Bible Belt anthems...
Serious Challenge. The specter of a leftist government has already spurred some wealthy Frenchmen to move their money abroad. For example, one top attorney admits that he drives regularly into Switzerland to deposit his own and his clients' funds in secret bank accounts there. Mitterrand nonetheless may be succeeding in his tranquilizing campaign. The right-wing Paris journal Minute warned last week: "Mitterrand has already won a great battle: he no longer frightens...
...hardening of positions followed a week of vacillation by Heath's government. First the Energy Department raised the specter of sewage flowing in the streets as a result of power shortages (sewage pumps are electrically powered), then it announced that fuel supplies were ample enough to go back to a four-or five-day week. That possibility has now been withdrawn in the face of a strike. Then Heath was undecided whether or not to call for an immediate election. That, too, has been abandoned at least for the time being, probably because the Tories fear that they might...
...dark vision haunts Western Europe these days-the specter of economic decline. Even before the Arabs unleashed their oil weapon, the anti-inflationary measures of European governments, widespread uncertainty about the future and political and labor unrest were combining to slow the rate of growth. What can Europe expect in 1974, which will be a year of rising energy costs and possibly of continuing scarcities...
...economic crisis, created by the energy shortage, has only grown worse. As Japan Times Editor Masaru Ogawa brooded editorially, it may turn out that "the Japanese economic giant has only feet of clay." Moreover, the political repercussions threaten to engulf Tanaka himself, and even raise the worrisome specter of a resurgence of Japanese nationalism...