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...lawyer, WAR leader Metzger is casting himself as a beleaguered populist, but not an instigator of violence. "I'm a white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger, is a "legal lynching...
...wise (if cynical) political move, but it does little to combat the mess into which the budget process has descended. As the deficit-reduction package of 1982 showed, increases in revenue are rarely used to combat the deficit--they usually end up as a justification for more pork-barrel spending...
...secret of the budget talks: House Republicans were no more willing than their opponents to support Darman's proposed cuts in health and retirement benefits and other ( federal entitlements. They bombarded Sununu's office with private pleas to protect special programs. They signed joint letters opposing cuts in pork- barrel programs. At one point, senior White House officials polled House G.O.P. members to see how many votes they could get for cuts of various sizes. "You know how much we raised from these guys?" a frustrated Bush aide asked in August. "To get 50% of the House Republicans to vote...
...been looking down the barrel of our enemy's gun, and Hitler had given us a chance to get out of the way. That was our justification for the pact, and it's still the way I see it today...
...Play hardball with the sheiks. Despite the popular perception that OPEC is no longer capable of enforcing price discipline on its members, a barrel of oil traded at more than twice its free-market price even before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. With two simple tools--stand-by gasoline rationing authority and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--the U.S. could use its weight in the world petroleum market to bust OPEC once and for all. By merely threatening to curtail drastically its consumption and flood the world market with cheap oil, the U.S. could force the oil-fattened Gulf kingdoms...