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...schemes like shared stockpiles and mutual demand cutbacks. It seems vague in detailing what policies the U.S. can employ to pacify OPEC nations and forestall another use of their potent oil weapon. And its prescription for per-capita tax rebates of windfall profits tax revenues, though seemingly equitable, would crush low-income families required to use cars to get to work...
...Above all, the moving pictures. Ronald Reagan was not the only one with a secret yen to get onto the silver screen. The nation's crush on Hollywood was flowering wildly in 1932; while a few would read Ernest Hemingway's new hymn to bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon, throngs would dig up the pennies necessary to get them in the picture show to see Gary Cooper in A Farewell to Arms. As things got worse, film fantasy became more and more a handy escape; Red Headed Woman with Jean Harlow, Winner Take All with James Cagney...
...Peking neighborhood, residents have been instructed to turn in their old Mao badges to local authorities. In the late Chairman's home town of Shaoshan in Hunan province, a hotel built to accommodate a crush of reverent pilgrims stands empty and silent. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, the municipal party committee has decided to tear down the huge central statue of Mao that was built in 1968 with funds that had originally been earmarked for a sports center. Signs of a careful, calculated effort by China's current leadership to reduce the status of the once venerated...
Geographic isolation, in part, helped protect both these mavericks from the Kremlin's wrath. Other rebellious East bloc nations were less fortunate. In 1953 the Soviet army moved into East Germany to crush a widening worker-led insurrection in support of political freedom and economic improvements. Three years later, there were popular uprisings against pro-Moscow regimes in both Poland and Hungary. The Kremlin let the Polish army put down the rioting Poznan workers, who were demanding "bread and freedom." But the Soviets sent their own troops into Budapest in a brutal suppression that left at least...
...Boston, city officials will enforce emergency rules mandating carpools and one-way traffic on main arteries during rush hours. Major businesses have agreed to stagger their operating hours in an attempt to ease the commuter crush...