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opinion from the judges) yesterday. Everyone from and the bureaucrats of the housewives to oil sheiks TUC and ISTC failed to joined in a massive buying prevent the. steel strike and selling spree." going ahead (muted abuse). The Express: "It could Priests from the US mean bargains in the played Christmas Carols to January sales shops whose bemused looking embassy gold ware was bought at staff held in Iran (dewy lower prices. Advice. to eyed religious fervour) and those about to get married trained their guns on the Royal jewellers Garrards: Zimbabwe guerrilla fighters "Buy quickly. A 22 carat British soldiers shot each probably double soon. other in Northern Ireland Roy Assersohn, (an incident the Telegraph editor, demonstrating reported under the headline gold fetishism has not 'Army's death ambush dented, wrote: "effectively carried out" ') "It is gold's eternal and political opponents of quality as a store of real British imperialism in value which has sent the As the pages of the calendar flicked over into 1980 the self-appointed arbiters of everything from class warfare to hairstylesthe press empires-tried to persuade us we were entering a NEW ERA.

Superstition, mysticism and entrail reading are sophisticated compared with the dogmatic adherence to the calendar shown by the modern day soothsayers.

Every year is a new dawn; every decade a new age; every century a new historical epoch.

Sadly for the prophecies tha arnaamir pricie the LIC CLU crisis, class struggle and the problems facing the capitalist and working class alike fail to run on such predestined tracks.

It was old problems and old crises which filled up the spaces between those articles in which bourgeois experts gave their worthless opinions of the years ahead.

Leyland signs a deal with Honda (muted applause): Edwardes relaunches the reactionary 'Backing Britain' campaign (a split Commonwealth (jingoistic pride).

Irelana , continuea IO arrested (loud applause).

The symptom of crisis which hest illustrated the VANE gap between reality and the fantasy world of Fleet Street, was the panic rise in the price of gold.

As confidence in the dollar began to collapse the financial wizards of the city pages were given full rein on the front pages to demonstrate their mystical approach to this most material of phenomena The The Sun said: world went gold crazy

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Page 6 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 9 January 1980 Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now press and mass media, and a trio of reviews subm it raises and the diversity of view of those who • three alternative reviews by Terry Eagleton, Tony US troops participate in Holy Communion as the battle rages around them