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Even critics applaud a number of Carter's moves. His Administration has redesigned several aid programs to provide more funds for the declining cities of the Northeast and Midwest and less for the booming Sunbelt. One example: 75% of the $3.5 billion in block grants for community development, approved by Congress last fall, must be spent specifically for the benefit of poor neighborhoods. In addition, his economic stimulus program made available $8 billion, enabling cities and towns to hire some 725,000 people who otherwise could not find jobs, and $4 billion for public works in areas with high unemployment...
Foreign anger has been sharpened because Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda has been promising for months to slash the trade surplus, yet nothing has happened. Last week something finally did. Faced with the real possibility that the U.S. and Europe would take protectionist moves to block the flow of Japanese goods into their markets, the 72-year-old Fukuda carried out a sweeping reorganization of his government to deal with what he called "the worst economic crisis in Japan's postwar history...
...Carter administration is under fire: from the right for asking businesses to make larger sacrifices and from the left for Vice-President Mondale's ill-advised interference in the filibuster designed to block efforts to raise the ceiling on natural gas prices--an effort the administration also opposed. That this bickering and confusion have caused the administration to lose faith in its ability to work with a feisty Congress was shown in a remark by energy chief James R. Schlesinger '50 to the effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits...
...humor and a gamy ration of powder-room candor, the characters are Stereotopical. The overachieving careerist (Jill Eikenberry) has become a lawyer. The placid one (Ann McDonough) who opted for marriage opts for pregnancy. The rollicking rebel (Swoosie Kurtz) who planned to write a novel gets writer's block. Prosaic justice? All of the actresses are well skilled. They might be better employed...
...special brand of fatalistic humor and discuss a program of his films tonight at 8 p.m., at Center Screen, in the Carpenter Center. The program will include "The Candy Machine," "The Club," "Rapid Transit," "Trik Film One," "Trik Film III," "L'age Door," "Viewmaster," "Hand Collations," "Step Print," "Block Print" and "Thumbnail Sketches...