The crisis is not limited to the problem of housing those affected by the Government's Operation Restore Order but includes the ever worsening situation in food and non food areas, where privations and shortages are reaching critical proportions.

Nor are there any signs of America s economic hegemony starting to fold under the weight of maintaining its unilateral military dominance. Instead of feeling the pinch of wartime privations, like in any ordinary country, American consumers are binging as if it were Christmas all year round.