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Lingering questions bedevil the Treasury Secretary
...mayors came to power with lavish promises and high hopes of curing unemployment, housing shortages and a host of other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...
...problem of dealing with "the troubles" continues to bedevil the governments of the Irish Republic and Britain. There had already been rumblings that security had slackened in Eke since Prime Minister Jack Lynch and his Fianna Fail Party were returned to power two years ago. Lynch's failure to return from a vacation in Portugal until late last week did nothing to stem the criticism, though he vigorously condemned the I.R.A. as the "real enemies of Ireland." Thatcher is being urged to push for tougher security measures when she meets with Lynch following Mountbatten's funeral this week...
...attacks are only fanning suspicions and dividing the nation instead of providing sober answers to the questions that bedevil the public. Among them...
These new moves may help, but, they are not likely to narrow the wide gap by very much. At first, the Administration had hoped that the cheaper dollar would lift U.S. exports, and to a very limited degree it has done so. Nonetheless, two problems continue to bedevil U.S. trade...