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Congress would do well to adopt the Nixon Administration's program to put sensible limits on real estate deductions. Local tax authorities should stop taxing undeveloped land at lower rates than developed land. If the rates were equalized, land hoarding would become prohibitively expensive for many speculators. And the cities might not be quite so blighted by weed-choked vacant lots, crumbling buildings and parking lots that speculators hold only because they are lightly taxed and might rise in price...
...benefits of the intervention exceed what are bound to be the costs." In a series of interviews, TIME's David Beckwith sought a sense of how that general philosophy might apply to the positions the new Solicitor General will be urging the Justices of the Supreme Court to adopt...
...course, the President is unlikely to adopt any regularized arrangement...
...eastern agreements, inevitably diminished any hope that Waldheim might have had for a softening of attitudes in the Middle East. By the time he reached Jerusalem, he found that Israel's position was also hardening. This week Israel's ruling Labor Party is expected to adopt a hawkish program, originated by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, for economic penetration and development of occupied territories on the West Bank of the Jordan and in the Sinai desert-which even some Israelis protest is "creeping annexation...
FORTUNATELY, the growing supports for the NLF did not force radicals to adopt tactics markedly different from those of liberals who fought the was on loftier, more abstract moral grounds. The goals for both groups was the same: an immediate end to American military involvement in Indochina. The liberals wanted the killing to stop; the radicals wanted the killing to stop...