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White House aides say that the President has not abandoned these positions but is likely to defer the most controversial "reforms," presumably until after the 1978 elections. The plan for next year will probably include more modest changes in the tax code, along with tax cuts designed to boost business confidence, prod capital spending and give a timely kick to the economy in order to prevent the slowdown that many experts have predicted for the second half...
Fred J. Emery, director of the Federal Register, looks over his desk each day at a 15-ft. shelf containing 73,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulation. There are millions of entries, new rules for life in these United States. It grows as much as 5,000 pages a year. Emery has started a school for the rule writers. He is trying to make the language at least understandable. He illustrates the problem with a parable: "It is like the two fellows in the hot air balloon who get lost in a cloud and, emerging, call down...
...revised the vocabulary of the dispute. Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. have been especially incensed by his repeated use of the phrase "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Carter chose not to accept the standing taboo on the term, which, as used by many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that 1) the Palestinian people exist, and 2) they have legitimate...
Such careful rulings about television behavior can be found in the fascinating CBS code of standards, an area that Schorr does not go into. Laying out what practices CBS does and does not permit, the code, which originated in memo form over the years and was gathered in a 1976 manual, provides a handy check list to the kind of sensationalized TV news coverage that still persists on too many local TV news shows. Some of the situations covered by the code...
...accidents or other tragedies, or with their relatives: "Avoid them." Exception: "When they throw light on what happened or drive home a point which might help avoid future tragedies ... Do not interview, or attempt to interview, a person who appears to be in a state of shock." (The CBS code does not point a finger at anyone else, but one of the most shameless recent TV exploitations of distraught relatives was Geraldo Rivera's ABC interviews in the Son of Sam murders...