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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contrary to Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal's feeling [Sept. 17] that fear alone, through tougher auditing of tax returns, will force people to declare their full income, I feel the carrot-and-stick approach will be more effective. That is, decrease taxes for everybody, perhaps to just 10% of income, but increase the penalties for tax dodging. Herein everyone will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...republic's second postrevolutionary President, Plutarco Elias Calles, and shaped by a leftist successor, Lázaro Cárdenas, the P.R.I, was designed to prevent political disagreements from bursting into violence by drawing organizations that represented workers, campesinos and civil servants into its leadership. This corporatist approach has enjoyed remarkable success at the polls: the P.R.I, has never lost a major election, or even been threatened by the country's feeble opposition parties. But the price of P.R.I, dominance has been high. Says a prominent Mexican lawyer: "Politics has been the restricted domain of the official party for so long that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Senior leaders of both countries, however, did little to help the initial atmosphere. Soviet Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov declared that the outcome of the talks depended exclusively on China's readiness to display "a reasonable, constructive approach" to normalizing relations between the two countries. But he also noted that Moscow "resolutely condemns the ideology and policy of Maoism as deeply hostile to Marxism-Leninism, the interests of socialism and the cause of peace." In Peking, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping similarly put a damper on the Moscow meeting in remarks to a foreign visitor, Canada's ex-Prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Some Elemental Differences | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Room of the White House. Out of the blue, he asked whether the President had as yet decided on receiving Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev, who was in Washington on a visit. The request could only mean that the Soviet leaders had decided to fall in with our approach of business as usual. Trying to match the Ambassador's studied casualness, I allowed that I probably would be able to arrange a meeting in the Oval Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...celebrated the President's birthday today by making a major breakthrough in the negotiations. The Vietnamese have broken our hearts several times before, and we just cannot assume success until everything is pinned down, but the mood and the businesslike approach was as close to October as we have seen since October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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