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...economists expect it to approach $50 billion. The problem will continue into fiscal 1981, which begins next October. Says Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution: "It is a very dismal budget outlook, and there is going to be a real fight. I don't think Carter can get spending much below $610 billion and, even at that, he has got to be tight on everything...
...United Nations Security Council to impose economic sanctions against Iran. "You would expect nothing less and you will receive nothing less but our full support," the Prime Minister told reporters. Carter and his aides were visibly delighted. At one point Carter said, "I want the American people to get to know you as I have come to know and admire...
...case, whom does the art boom benefit? Only collectors and middlemen. Few artists get to share in it. This is partly because boom conditions create an unreal system of reputation, with most of the benefits going to a handful of stars at the top and scarcely anything to the rest. The American art education system, churning out as many graduate artists every five years as there were people in late 15th century Florence, has in effect created an unemployable art proletariat whose work society cannot "profitably" absorb. Generous tax laws, which enabled collectors to buy low, keep a picture...
...office, says Quinn, she thought she saw a photo that showed Brzezinski unzipping his pants. Though hazy on details, Quinn now says that she heard someone say that this was indeed what Brzezinski had done. Before Quinn's series went to press, the Post tried unsuccessfully to get the wording of Brzezinski's inscription on the picture, but the paper evidently made no further attempt to verify the episode...
Powell asked Crawford to the White House that afternoon to meet with himself, Brzezinski, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...