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...offers-several innovative and much needed new programs. But for the most part, it is a repackaging of existing ones. Moreover, reflecting Carter's promise to balance the budget by 1980, he has kept a tight-some would say miserly-grip on the purse strings. He intends to add only an estimated $3.5 billion to the $85 billion to be spent to aid states and cities in fiscal...
...usually attaches his own recommendations as well. Says an associate: ''On almost every domestic issue, Stu has the last word." He pushed successfully for keeping a few proposed minor reforms in the Administration's tax cut bill, which is now before Congress. He persuaded Carter to add 415,000 more public service jobs to his economic stimulus package. Now he is trying to speed up work on a national health insurance program. At times he has given Carter bad advice. He erred in recommending that the Administration pay back maritime unions for their election support by backing...
Meanwhile, leftist leaders were conducting a bitter postmortem. Mitterrand blamed the left's defeat on the Communists, who "did not hesitate to add their unceasing and violent attacks [against the Socialists] to those of the right." Later, in a closed session of his party's executive committee, he declared: "We did not obtain as many votes as the public opinion polls had predicted because Georges Marchais frightened the undecided voters who were getting ready to cast their ballots for us. They asked themselves how we could govern with the Communists...
Taken together, these scarcely add up to a comprehensive program, let alone a draconian one. But most could be useful first steps. Economic advisers figure they would also give Carter moral authority to make a renewed plea to labor and business for wage-price restraint...
...events in 1975 set the aluminum executives on a new course, which has been better for the industry but more inflationary for the economy. The strategic stockpile, used by the Government to discipline the industry's efforts to increase prices, was virtually depleted. More important, the race to add new capacity was halted. The reason: it now costs $2,000 per ton (double the figure of five years ago) to build a new plant, according to Cornell Maier, president of Kaiser. That considerable figure does not include the costs of developing sources of bauxite, the reddish, earthy raw material...