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...program, with the indigestible title Tax Reform for Fairness, Simplicity and Economic Growth, is gaining adherents, though swarms of lobbyists for just about everything from corporations to charities are still determined to kill or alter it. The special interests love the brier patch of the current tax code, which takes up 33 feet of shelf space and has enough shadowy havens to hide almost anything. "It was easier to get tax legislation than take other action," says Chapoton. Before long, the U.S. tax system was setting industrial policy. "Investments were being based on tax considerations," explains Egger. "Prices in real...
Another factor is the disillusion over the current code. IRS officials say more and more people are bucking the system in a variety of ways, from petty cheating on tax forms to holding off IRS agents with shotguns. Whether we like to admit it or not, the U.S. is great because it has always found money to meet its problems. The Treasury calls this special quality "taxpayer morale," the willingness of citizens to finance Government activities. That morale has rested on the belief that everyone was paying a fair share. Now that collective faith is in jeopardy...
...from refugee camps in Sudan and brought them to the Promised Land. Declared one proud Israeli: "The rest of the world is talking about the famine in Ethiopia, and we are doing something about it. It makes me feel good." But two days after the covert seven-week mission, code-named Operation Moses, became public knowledge, it came to an abrupt halt. Just before a plane carrying some 200 Falashas landed in Israel, officials of Trans European Airways, the Brussels-based charter airline that had made 35 refugee-ferrying flights since late November, suddenly announced that it was suspending...
Rawhide and Rainbow, as the Secret Service code book calls them, are unapologetic lovers, affectionate in the extreme, at times almost treacly. They call each other by diminutives: he's "Ronnie" and often she's "Mommy." At their California ranch, they paddle together in a canoe named TruLuv that was a 25th-anniversary present from "Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still...
...gross interference in Ethiopia's internal affairs." The statement charged Sudan with accepting financial inducements to help the Israelis. Sudan denied the allegations, calling them "part of a malicious plot against Arab solidarity." Neither Sudan nor Ethiopia has diplomatic relations with Israel. The cost of the airlift, code named Operation Moses, could exceed $100 million. It is financed largely by American Jewish organizations and individuals. To Israel, the program has a particularly deep meaning. According to Moshe Gilboa, an Israeli Foreign Ministry official, the resettlement of the Falashas "rejects the cruel and ignorant assumption that Zionism is equated with racism...