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Under the plan, Detroit's beloved dinosaur, thumping its chrome-plated tail, is doomed for the swamps of extinction. The new plan will impose an excise tax on the purchase of large cars. Under consideration as a fallback plan is a gasoline tax, beginning with 5? per gal. and rising at regular intervals to 50? or $1 in order to discourage Americans from buying big gas-guzzling autos. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, which the new Administration is embracing, each manufacturer by 1980 must produce a line of cars that achieve an average...
...arms talks. In his U.N. speech, he called for "strict controls or even a freeze on new types and new generations of weaponry and a deep reduction in the strategic arms of both sides." Then, with a candor unusual in a foreign policy address, he disclosed a possible negotiating fallback position, suggesting "a limited agreement based on those elements of the Vladivostok accord on which we can find complete consensus, [setting aside] the more contentious issues...
...BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever are up for sale, but there are few takers. Last year nearly 10,000 whites left Rhodesia for good. The country's white population was maintained...
...southern column, supported by Soviet T-34 tanks and helicopter gunships and spearheaded by Cubans, then rolled 200 miles beyond Huambo without opposition. The column occupied the major southern city of Sá da Bandeira (renamed Lubango), the Atlantic port of Moçâmedes, and a potential UNITA fallback headquarters at Serpa Pinto, putting them within 150 miles of the South West Africa border and the South African defense line...
...clear. Like revolutionaries who operate on a larger political stage, McMurphy may be acting out of idealism or he may have found a socially acceptable cover for profound psychopathy−or both. Kesey also understood that a belief in the possibility of rebellion is essential to modern man, a fallback position that can be taken up when despair threatens to turn into self-destruction. It is to restore that faint possibility for his fellow inmates that McMurphy ultimately acts without understanding what he is doing. The revolt he leads can only put him under the lobotomizer's knife. Instead...