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Obvious Attempt. East Germans had expected Ulbricht to present his new set of laws at the very earliest on June 30, when he celebrates his 75th birthday. His haste to push the constitution through at the earliest possible date is an obvious attempt to buttress his own position at a time when change and unrest are sweeping over his two closest Communist neighbors, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The last surviving Stalinist ruler in the Soviet bloc, Ulbricht feels ill at ease and isolated. As matters stand today in Eastern Europe, his introduction of such a backward-looking document may make...
Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler has time and again warned that the inflationary perils of an "overheating" U.S. economy make the Johnson Administration's proposed 10% surtax urgently necessary-and, to buttress his case, he likes to point out that consumer prices have been increasing at an annual rate of 4%. But Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist for the National Industrial Conference Board, makes a very different point. Noting that the Federal Reserve Board's index of factory, mine and utility production declined in January, Gainsbrugh said last week: "If you have slack in the industrial capacity...
Johnson is most comfortable with men of long memory who buttress his own recollection of past Presidents' woes. He consoles himself with anecdotes of New Deal and World War II crises and of Truman's troubled days. "I remember in 1948," he says, "there wasn't a single person I could find who would say a good word about Harry Truman. There were 23 members of the Texas delegation, and only two of us would get on the train and ride with him." Perhaps the analogy explains the currently high influence in the White House of Lawyer...
...serious cut-off might also weaken NATO. This argument overestimates the importance of the Greek army in the NATO structure, as well as the long-term effect of a provisionary cut-off. Diplomats also contend that the fall of the junta might lead to civil war. But to buttress the present dictatorship with military aid in the name of stability would be morally wrong and also eventually lead to a more bitter reaction from the oppressed people...
...frequent consultation. The Governor and the Senator have found it easy to cooperate on public-works programs to benefit the state, and have even agreed on a controversial plan to preserve California's redwood forests (TIME, March 24). Reagan's help on such nonideological issues can only buttress the look-what-I've-done-for-California theme that Kuchel will probably use in his re-election campaign. And Kuchel allowed solemnly last week: "I think a U.S. Senator has a duty to cooperate with the Governor of his state in order to represent the best interests...