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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northern Ireland are hard to understand, and many wonder why it doesn't pull out. There are at least two reasons: First, a deep commitment to law and order and an unwillingness to withdraw troops or political control in the face of a terrorist campaign (even if this should extend to England as the Provisional IRA has promised it would); and second, strong diplomatic pressure from the European Economic Community countries, with large Catholic populations, to stay in Northern Ireland and protect the Catholic minority from any possible repression or massacre. Whitehall might have to bow to these pressures even...
Such disenchantments extend to nearly all of Charlie's earthly endeavors. His paddleball game is slowing down; he owes his publishers $70,000 on advances for books he has yet to write; his wife Denise is suing him for divorce and stripping him of everything but his costly cotton undershorts; his old friend Thaxter, an eccentric literary conman with expensive tastes, has squandered thousands of Citrine's dollars given to start an intellectual quarterly. In addition, Citrine's silver-gray Mercedes has been vandalized by a petty hood, a Mafia buffo character named Ronald Cantabile, to whom...
Open Mind. Thus the next round of policy debates in Washington, likely to start when Congress returns next month, will be over what additional stimulus the economy may need to keep the recovery on course-without kicking up too much more inflation. Congress almost surely will extend $9.4 billion of the 1975 tax cuts; Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has indicated that the Administration has an open mind on the issue. There is some sentiment in Congress that additional tax cuts might be needed...
More generally, the Government has strong political and balance of payment reasons to encourage sales abroad by U.S. arms and aerospace manufacturers, and sometimes has not hesitated to promote them. The Government interest does not, of course, extend to condonement of bribery. But it probably precludes any effective measures to stamp it out, like passage of a law making the payment of foreign bribes a crime...
...soften the blow, the Administration intends to drop its $2 per bbl. tariff on imported oil. Congress is almost sure to extend through next year $9.4 billion in tax cuts enacted for 1975, and the Administration will have little choice but to go along. Still deeper tax cuts might be needed too. To get them enacted, the White House and Congress would have to muster a far greater willingness to compose their differences than is indicated by the long and sorry record of their wrangling over energy...