Unhappy New Year for West-paper
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Inflation. unemployment, and an economic slump are the only’ gifts w’orkers in the West can expect this Christmas, a Soviet newspaper has said. The article in “Sotsialistcheskaya Industriya” (“Socialist Industry”) was accompanied by a cartoon depicting a villainous-looking Santa Claus carrying a sack marked "inflation, ’ unemployment, slump" and a fir tree shaped
■pike a missile. , “These are the unfortunate : presents which Santa Claus pis bringing for the new year,” ■ the newspaper said. Christmas festivities had not distracted the majority of ■ workers from “their worries ■ about, their daily bread.” The newspaper Cited ; figures showing rising inflai tion and unemployment in I the United States, Britain, , West Germany, and other I western countries. _____ _
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Press, 27 December 1979, Page 4
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