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Where French reasoning breaks down is that MLF would give the Germans at least a squeeze on the nuclear trigger, while the French force de frappe would give them, in effect, nothing. The point was perfectly expressed in a recent conversation between a German and a French official. The dialogue went something like this: Frenchman: We need you in our force de frappe. An atomic arsenal is expensive, and German cooperation would be to both our advantages...
...overtime. Ford would have none of this, and the strike was on. It immediately cut Ford's passenger car production by 16% , its truck output by 34%. Its continuance not only would threaten the industry's fond hopes to run up another record auto year, but could trigger the dampening reaction in the economy that economists have been fearing since the beginning of the labor negotiations-which have certainly turned out to be more difficult and unpleasant than anyone could have expected...
Speaking informally to an audience in Lowell House Junior Common Room, the founder of the Gradualist Way to Peace movement charged that a proposed European Multilateral Force would eventually give the Germans a finger on the trigger of nuclear war-heads in the 25 Polaris submarines sold...
Fortnight ago, in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second biggest city, either police or pro-Paz campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
...Trigger for the whole thing was the Housing Act of 1949, which authorized the Federal Government to pay cities for at least two-thirds of the difference between the cost of acquiring and clearing a blighted area, and the price the land brought when sold to a private developer. The act's chief aim was to clear slums, but it was quickly realized that slums were not all the city had to worry about. In successive broadening acts and amendments, the legislation has been expanded to finance the redevelopment of the heart of the city by authorizing clearance of land...