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...first recounts his poor childhood on his daddy's farm and eulogizes the honesty and integrity of hard work. Then he urges all the "working men and women" of Mississippi to unite to fight for more and better-paying jobs and to help create a "better, fairer" Mississippi for all. The elocution is egregious, but the 'underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious...
...unabashed candor and infinite self-important, they lyrically relate their thoughts on any number of topics, from the "graph" to the stock market. But their most vehemently held opinions all center on the nature of females. Although the four staunchly maintain their fondness for women, they still view the fairer sex as pawns in a male game. Bertie and Co. obviously think that the female should be subjugated to the male in all matters. Their chauvinism is turned to bizarre comic uses, however, when in the climactic moments of the play one of the men, seated at the piano, unfurls...
...supports vacancy rent decontrol. He says the purpose of rent control is to protect "low and middle income people, and elderly residents, who do not move around." Vacancy decontrol will not hurt these tenants, Crane says, but it will free up other apartments so that landlords can charge a fairer rent. These other apartments are now occupied by young professional people, "who can pay a fair market price," he says...
Taken together, these proposals hardly seem likely to serve Carter's stated goal of making the tax system simpler; if anything, filling out returns would become even more complicated. The President's effort to make taxes fairer by closing loopholes and broadening the tax base has also had to be tempered by the political realities. Even so, Carter is determined to get as much reform as he can into the package, and the Administration seems ready to take on the many groups that are sure to oppose one or more parts of the program...
...assessment of the policy is no better than mixed if Carter's aim is to ease the plight of those suffering rights abuses. In some nations?South Korea, the Philippines, Benin, Chile, Iran and Argentina?a number of dissenters have begun receiving slightly fairer treatment. But elsewhere there has been either no relaxation or?as in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania?there have been new repressive crackdowns...