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...Strauss would eventually falter because of his lack of international experience, and this could only enhance his own standing. With Vance having already declared he would leave his job next year, and Carter devoting far less time to foreign policy, Brzezinski had become even more influential. White House aides contend privately that Brzezinski wants to succeed Vance, and he sees Strauss as a rival...
...been locked for almost four years in a no-win war against the guerrillas of the leftist Polisario Front, which is fighting to turn the barren but phosphate-rich, 103,000-sq.-mi. slab of desert into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic." At home, he has had to contend with rising public anger and labor strikes prompted by a deteriorating economy; it has suffered both from the decline in the price of phosphates, which provide a third of Morocco's export earnings, and from the war's cost, estimated at $1 million a day. Internationally...
Observes Bruce MacLaury, president of the Brookings Institution, which is no longer quite the hotbed of Keynesianism that it once was: "It has been hard for the Keynesians to contend that their prescriptions are the way out of stagflation. Ultimately, they are forced to admit that Keynesian techniques just bring forth inflation and not real growth. They answer that the solution is wage-price guidelines or another form of an incomes policy, but that is a very weak reed to lean...
...tome is a 651-page text, Macroeconomics, by Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, 35, both professors at M.I.T. Published in 1977, it has become the largest selling advanced economics text. The authors' central thesis reflects the new economists' nagging uncertainty about the omnipotence of their own profession. They contend that the complex computer models used to predict the effects of specific economic policies or actions simply do not-and cannot-reflect the way the real world behaves. "What will be the magnitude of reaction to a broad tax cut?" asks Dornbusch. "Will people spend the money at once? Will...
Activist nurses contend that the real reason for this obstinance is that physicians want to hold on to their economic power. Many doctors admit that up to 80% of all office care given by pediatricians and family practitioners could be handled by competent nurses. Says Dr. Leon Oettinger Jr., a pediatrician in San Marino, Calif: "With its heavy reliance on physicians, the American medical system can be said to be using Cadillacs to do a tractor's job." That may not be the kindest analogy, but the Department of Health, Education and Welfare agrees with the basic analysis...