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...visit to Moscow was an unusual Soviet offer of $300 million or more worth of credit in hard currency. Dubček will no doubt gladly take the money, but he is also eager to make sure that the Russians do not revert from the carrot to the stick and cut off the oil and raw-material shipments upon which his country depends. As a hedge against any loss of Soviet oil, for example, he is reportedly negotiating with Iran for millions of tons...
...Stick & Carrot. On Dec. 1, 1934, Sergei Mironovich Kirov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was assassinated in Leningrad. It was this event that Stalin chose to use as the excuse to rid himself of all potential opposition-real and imagined-and to inflict the cult of terror that would ensure his dictatorship...
Getting a chance to clerk for a judge or work for one of the many law firms that pluck from Harvard each year provides a large carrot at the end of the stick. There is also the hope of getting into one of the three honor societies-law review, board of legal advisers, and legal aid. Admittance to the honoraries has long been strictly on the basis of grades. Now, in line with general dissatisfaction over the emphasis placed on marks, the Legal Aid Bureau has accepted a few members on the basis of other qualifications, and the law review...
...welfare changes were tacked onto a bill providing a general 121% increase in Social Security benefits; they reflect the gut feeling of many Congressmen that large numbers of welfare recipients are either too lazy or too unmotivated to work. Their remedy: a big stick and a small carrot...
...merits, the bill's carrot content would have won wholehearted support. Job-training programs would be greatly expanded, more day-care centers would be established so that working mothers would have a place to leave their children. Not least, welfare recipients would be allowed to keep some of the money they earn. Under present rules, most welfare agencies are required to deduct every penny earned from welfare payments, in effect imposing a confiscatory 100% tax that discourages any attempt at getting...