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There's a saying current in some parts of the world: scratch a liberal and find a fascist. The saying finds support in the activities of people like Premier Marcos of the Philippines, elected with the help of a liberal American advertising firm only to clamp down a rigid dictatorship when democracy threatened to mean social change. But it's not supposed to find support in the United States itself...
Responsibility for the attack was claimed last week by the People's Revolutionary Army, or E.R.P., a Marxist terrorist group that numbers about 2,000 guerrillas. The attack came on the eve of parliamentary debates on a new penal code that would clamp down on terrorist activities; for example, it would more than double the maximum sentence for extortion (to ten years). The code, which was approved at week's end, is an emotional issue among the already divided supporters of aging President Juan Perón, 78; they are torn between a concern for protecting civil rights...
...Shows. The Government probably will also clamp down on no-shows. As schedules have tightened, passengers have hedged their reservations by making multiple bookings. At some airlines, no-show rates have doubled during peak periods. American has 18,000 no-shows a day, and United counts more than 22,000-10% to 15% of their capacities. The CAB'S remedy may be to require passengers to pay for tickets up to four weeks in advance and then charge penalties of $25 to $100 to passengers who miss their flights. United's Carlson opposes a tough no-show policy...
...require that by 1984 all U.S. automakers increase fuel economy by an average of 50% or more over 1974 models?a move that would surely force a drastic reduction in size and weight unless some radically more economical engine is developed. A number of other bills before Congress would clamp excise taxes on new cars on the basis of weight or horsepower...
...Government accordingly permitted a budget deficit of $14.3 billion in fiscal 1973, and it proved too much of a stimulus for an economy that was already straining close to its limits. The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced President Nixon to clamp on another wage-price freeze and institute Phase IV. Had the full-employment target been set higher, the overheated condition of the economy might have been discerned sooner...