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Many of Carter's difficulties stem from the fact that America is divided on major issues, and he cannot be expected magically to reconcile the differences in a few weeks. Example: some economists and businessmen fear that his economic program is inflationary, while many liberals deem it insufficient. Carter has a Democratic Congress, of course, but many of its leaders are eager to reassert congressional power eroded during recent Administrations...
...held at twelve-year intervals on one of four sites. The Kumbh Mela at Allahabad is the most blessed, for here the Ganges meets not only the Yamuna but the Saraswati, a legendary underground river. This spot is known as the Sangam (sacred confluence). Some holy men, moreover, deem the current configuration of the sun, moon and stars to be exactly the same as at the creation of the world, making last Wednesday the holiest day in all of history for bathing at the sacred confluence...
Worse still, the government has ruled out most of the measures that might help reduce inflation. Israeli leaders deem it out of the question politically to cut defense expenditures, which swallowed 42% of the $12 billion budget in 1976. Welfare payments ($2.2 billion last year) are another political untouchable. The Histadrut, Israel's all-powerful labor federation, is dead set against wage controls; workers strike like clockwork to protest high prices, and nearly always win raises from management. Last week in the Knesset (parliament), the right-wing opposition party, Likud, pushed into committee four bills requiring arbitration in labor...
...Kruger guided through Parliament an omnibus security bill, known as the Internal Security Act, that provides for the indefinite detention without trial of any person whom the police deem to be a security risk. As his police continued a nationwide crackdown on black militants last week, Kruger confirmed that 77 people were being detained under the Internal Security Act; some sources say that the number is at least twice as high. The minister added that 744 others, most of them black, had been arrested on such charges as rioting, arson and "causing a disturbance...
...ebony and gold altar. Their vows were identical to those exchanged by all Swedes marrying in the state Lutheran Church. Flanking the altar upon cushioned taborets were two gold, jewel-encrusted crowns, which they will never put upon their royal heads. Reason: Carl Gustaf's countrymen would deem that unsuitably undemocratic...