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...doomed to failure-as even Valéry Giscard d'Estaing must know in his heart of hearts. A few days after signing the linguistic law, France's President was chatting to a group of journalists at the Elysée Palace. "Ce que je vais dire," he warned, "est off the record...
...many of her dire predictions have come true, too little of her advice has been followed, complained Ideologue Ayn Rand, 70. And that, said the author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, accounts for her decision to stop publishing the Ayn Rand Letter, her monthly four-page tract on objectivist philosophy and laissez-faire capitalism. "I intend to return, full time, to my primary work: writing books," she wrote to her 15,000 subscribers. "The state of today's culture is so low that I do not care to spend my time watching and discussing it. I am haunted...
...each of the past five years, federal and industry officials have frightened the nation with dire predictions of severe winter shortages of natural gas, and each time the actual shortfall has turned out to be manageable. The 1975 forecasts, however, sounded alarmingly convincing. Last July, President Ford himself warned that plant shutdowns caused by gas shortages "will mean substantially less jobs" during the winter of 1975-76 and "could interfere with economic recovery," while a gas-company official spoke of "the industry's Pearl Harbor." From there the script got more familiar: as the heating season approached, the warnings...
...road to compromise was filled with political pitfalls. The first meeting of Ford with Carey and Mayor Abraham Beame last May was more confrontation than give-and-take. They came on so strong - warning of dire consequences unless New York 'got federal aid, claiming that the city could do no more to help itself - that they turned the President off. Both sides began to mobilize public opinion to pressure the other. The President made stern public appeals for frugality and forebearance; New Yorkers argued that a default would have a domino effect around the nation and even abroad...
...President Ford has an appointment to make with far more dire and long-term potential consequences. The resignation of William O. Douglas leaves a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and considering recent Ford appointments--Blackburn is only one example--Congress should look very closely at the personal qualifications and ideological merits of the President's choice for the court position. Ford has no mandate from the voters, he was appointed himself by a discredited President who was driven out of office--any appointment he makes should receive the most serious scrutiny