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Walsh's order calls on the police chief to prepare a report "to detail on what is being done to curtail this practice and what plan he can enact to crack down and bring to an end this violation...
...Today everything is gloomy and vacillating, a lot of people are hoping for a bloodletting, for atrocities and cruelties with all the 'ancient attributes': tyranny, the iron fist, a threatening master, army order. Already from every quarter appeals are heard to curtail Ogonyok editor Vitali Korotich; he irritates them more than anything else, and now the hosts of the 'loyal and prudent' are marching on him . . . No matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans...
...city that has long been in love with the automobile. By a vote of 10 to 2, the directors of the south coast air- quality-management district, a regional agency with authority over Los Angeles, last week adopted a sweeping 20-year antipollution plan. It will not only drastically curtail automobile use in the Los Angeles basin but also convert virtually all vehicles to the use of nonpolluting fuels by 2009. "The public is ready for change," declares Jim Lents, executive officer of the management district. "This plan signals the beginning of that process...
...President Alan Garcia Perez's first moves after taking office in 1985 was to reduce payments due on Peru's $14 billion foreign debt. As a result, Peru is virtually cut off from all fresh foreign credits. Last September Garcia imposed a rigorous austerity plan designed to curtail imports, stimulate exports and cancel subsidies. But critics say his efforts are still insufficient to halt Peru's downward slide. And Garcia refuses to make any deal with international banks that would require the country to pay more on its debt than it would receive in new money. "It's not that...
...major legislative triumph of Reagan's second term. A reduction in capital-gains levies would erode the reform principle that earned and unearned income should be taxed equally. Bush also retains an unmistakable affection for the kind of special-interest tax breaks that the 1986 legislation was designed to curtail. The President has quietly asked Congress for $2.7 billion annual tax reductions for business, including $400 million for oilmen, who include some of Bush's most faithful supporters. In comparison, the Administration's aggressively ballyhooed child- care tax credits for low-income families would cost around $2.5 billion...