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...those liberals, social democrats and Stalinists who call for reform of the NSA/CIA, we respond: Abolish the capitalist secret police! To reform them is only to make them better tools in the hands of the imperalists, whose interests they were created to serve. A workers revolution will sweep away all the creatures of imperalism as it rids the world of the brutal system of exploitation for profit, and prepares to build a new socialist society...
...said the University is proposing to abolish the program in an attempt to save money...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often on wealth accumulated from undeclared remittances sent home by Indians living abroad-provided they declared their holdings and paid taxes and a penalty on them. Large sums that would otherwise have been spent on such luxury items as cars and air conditioners flowed into the treasury, adding to foreign exchange...
Daughter's Dowry. Reluctance to abolish the dowry is more than a matter of male chauvinist greed. Says Bruce Lansdale, an American sociologist who has lived in Greece for 30 years: "The dowry is just as important as birth and death in Greek family life. For some girls it is a ticket off the farm to the big city. These days, if a farmer saves enough to buy an apartment in the city, it becomes the daughter's dowry and attracts a young engineer, mechanic or construction worker." But for a poor parent with many daughters...
...Government and reduce the bureaucracy. As a start, he plans to ask Congress for a somewhat stronger version of the power to make limited changes?subject to veto by the Hill?that was granted to every President from Truman to Nixon. Says Carter: "I don't desire to abolish or create entire departments or to eliminate any members of the Cabinet without going to Congress for permanent legislation. But I've got to have the authority to transfer programs back and forth and to consolidate the control of programs under one entity in the Government." He is already considering plans?...