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...indeed yawns no wider than that, Simon leans toward a kind of semi-rationing: a system that would allot a certain number of gallons of gas a week to each driver (or car) at taxes no higher than those now in effect but would clamp a heavy "excess-use" tax on purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass...
...home, coupled with the upward revaluation of the yen, makes manufacturing operations in Europe much more profitable than sending Japanese goods halfway round the world. A second reason for direct investment is that if the European trade deficit with Japan grows much larger, the Common Market may simply clamp on quotas or demand so-called voluntary restraints to keep Japanese goods out. Already those restrictions on Japanese products are much stricter in Europe than in the U.S. Says Michel Carré, a Brussels management consultant: "The Japanese are welcome abroad as investors, but not as pushers of Japanese goods...
...failure of the revolt could work in Allende's favor. Now that his advance warning about a right-wing rebellion has been substantiated, he could use fears of further coups as a pretext to clamp down on his enemies, who are both numerous and powerful. Allende has already extended the state of emergency to the entire country and, as a further show of his strength, invited supporters to stage mass demonstrations to celebrate "our victory...
...court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those in the past." Last week, in a decision that could drastically clamp down on the so-called sexual explosion in U.S. art and entertainment and, perhaps more important, turn loose the forces of puritanical repression, the court backed Burger's call for curtailment...
...door of my cell." Finally, in the winter of 1968, he was taken back to the hospital. X rays showed that an operation was necessary. One of the guards told him that his leg had to be amputated. The wound was cleaned out, however, the iron clamp removed and the leg was finally on its way to healing-nearly 2½ years after it had been broken. In early February 1969, Kasler was returned to the Zoo, and got a roommate, Navy Commander Peter Schoeffel, who had been shot down in 1967. He had spent a total of 18 months...