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...score tax reform measures since 1922, and has acted on none of them--not even one drafted by its own tax commission. The Commonwealth's property taxes are 70 per cent higher than the national average and still the legislature stands pat. It will take Proposition 2 1/2 to bluff the politicians on Beacon Hill into revising the tax structure...
...protecting the flow of oil out of the gulf, American officials remained confident that an Iranian threat to mine the Strait of Hormuz if other countries intervened in the conflict was a bluff. U.S. intelligence found no evidence that Iran was manufacturing mines or acquiring them from abroad. But just in case, helicopters rigged for minesweeping were standing by on U.S. carriers in the nearby Arabian Sea. "There is no question that we can keep the strait open," Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs David McGiffert told TIME...
Harry Truman, he thinks, was wrong to stage the Berlin airlift. The U.S. should have sent its trucks overland and called the Soviets' bluff; Moscow would have backed down and might have been better behaved thereafter. Douglas Mac-Arthur was correct about Korea. Had the general's view prevailed, Reagan speculates, "I don't think there would ever have been a Viet Nam." And Solzhenitsyn is correct today in his dark vision of what will happen tomorrow if the West fails to pull itself together...
...Nature did not make me willowy," Dixy Lee Ray once observed. Nature did not make her a diplomat, either. Four years ago, intrigued by Ray's bluff manners and blunt speech, voters elected her Governor of Washington. But once she was in office, her attitude came to seem less hearty than arrogant, and last week she went down to a stunning defeat. Democrats chose State Senator James A. McDermott as their gubernatorial nominee, with 59% of the votes...
DIED. Douglas Kenney, 33, a founder and onetime editor of the humor magazine National Lampoon and co-author of the screenplays for the 1978 hit Animal House and this summer's Caddyshack, which he also produced; in a fall from a 30-ft. bluff on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he was vacationing. A 1968 graduate of Harvard, where he was an editor of the collegiate Lampoon, Kenney and two other former editors in 1970 launched the National Lampoon, which has since spun off movies, stage revues, a radio show, records and books...