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...Critics contend that the investment credit, on top of the ADR, not only is inequitable but also fails to meet the immediate problems of unemployment and a sluggish economy. They point out that with industry running at only 73% of capacity, corporations have scant reason to buy more equipment. Thus the tax savings, in the opposition's view, is a windfall that would do little more in the short run than boost profits. Most labor leaders oppose the idea, maintaining that it would do little to whittle down the jobless rate in steel, aerospace, autos and other major industries...
...American Motors, plus a group of foreign manufacturers, unanimously insisted that the theory needs revision. They asked a federal district court in Cincinnati to set aside the 1974 standard on the grounds that it is ill-conceived, inadequately researched and unrealistic. The biggest problem is time. The automakers contend that since air bags are not yet perfected, they cannot be installed by the deadline. Reflecting this, production lines for 1974 models have already been prepared-minus air bags...
...valid is the charge that the U.S. is unfairly treated in world markets? Administration officials contend that while America has freely opened its markets to outside competition, its trading partners have thrown up import quotas and other barriers...
LIKE all Irish politicians, John Lynch has to contend with the ghosts of the past. Unlike many Irish politicians, he neither invokes nor exploits them. "I am not affected by any past bitternesses," he says. At 54, Lynch is a realist whose election five years ago marked the end of the era of charismatic strongmen with revolutionary pasts-William Cosgrave, Eamon de Valera, Sean Lemass. Born the year after the 1916 Easter Rising, he is the Irish Republic's first Prime Minister, or Taoiseach (pronounced Tea-shock), of the post-civil-war generation...
...addition to the extreme nationalists, Lynch must also contend with the reasoned criticism of such political opponents as Conor Cruise O'Brien, the scholar and diplomat who is now a Labor Party M.P. in Dublin. Last week O'Brien published in the Irish Times an eloquent open letter to New York Lawyer-Politician Paul O'Dwyer, urging him not to campaign for the I.R.A. in the U.S. Wrote O'Brien: "Don't believe the I.R.A. if they tell you the Irish people are behind them. I was elected with mainly a working-class vote...