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...candidates, only George Wallace seems to get along without any regular economic advice. Staff assistants insist that Wallace does consult with economists but are unable to name any. Wallace once remarked: "I look around at all the other candidates who have these advisers advocating things that have brought us where we are. I think maybe I'll have a good truck driver, a good steelworker, a good little businessman and let them advise me." This unintellectual approach has failed. Wallace's campaign has stalled so badly that his days as a national power seem finished...
While the B.U. faculty seems, on the whole, to accept the need for substantial reductions in the university's expenses, the body feels Silber's methods have been arbitrary and abrasive. Silber has consistently refused to consult with the faculty representatives in devising the budget for next year, claiming that deans and department chairmen cannot be objective when they are fighting for scarce resources...
...laboriously watered down precisely to avoid a U.S. veto. Israel was infuriated by a well-intentioned aside uttered by Scranton just before beginning his opening speech in the Security Council debate. The new ambassador looked around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest to Kissinger. The Secretary of State, embarrassed about Scranton's friendliness...
...Among other things, it raised taxes on auto sales, lifted the price of gasoline by 14.3%, to $1.73 a gallon, and raised the government bank lending rate a startling four points, to 12%. Significantly, Prime Minister Moro, whose Christian Democrats are operating a minority monocolore government, was forced to consult with the Communists before he could start that program...
Louis J. Armistead, assistant to the vice-president for Community Affairs, said yesterday that the MDC did not consult with the University before making the decision to run the trial program...