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...censured Republican Daniel Crane of Illinois and Democrat Gerry Studds of Massachusetts for sexual misconduct with 17-year-old congressional pages. The House Ethics Committee had recommended that the two be given only reprimands, the lightest possible punishment. But prodded by conservative Congressmen, the full House opted for a harsher penalty. Under censure, a lawmaker is stripped of any committee chairmanship; Studds lost his position as head of the subcommittee on the Coast Guard...
...women who, like Congresswoman Snowe, try to see it as a generation gap. Says Snowe: "He's just not capable of understanding the problems of today's women." But groups like the Women's Truth Squad on Reagan of the National Organization for Women take a harsher view, with their detailed indictments of Reagan's positions on women's issues. NOW cites Reagan's plans to reduce affirmative-action requirements and equal-employment regulations, his opposition to programs designed to produce educational equity, and his cuts in social welfare programs. Women, along with children...
...cigarette industry faces a special problem. For 30 years it has been under attack by various Government agencies over issues of smoking and health. Since 1966, federal law has mandated ever harsher health warnings on cigarette packs and in ads about smoking (see box). Those admonitions, plus increased federal and state taxes, the recession and America's rising health-consciousness, have taken their toll. Consumption was down half a percent last year, dropping from 627 billion cigarettes in 1981 to 624 billion last year. John Maxwell of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Wall Street's leading tobacco-industry analyst...
...will face first a leveling off, and then a decline, of North Sea oil revenues after some fields begin to go dry. This will mean that the Conservative government will no longer be able to count on the oil cushion that has so far helped it to soften the harsher effects of the recession. With inflation down, Thatcher is expected to take more risks to protect the recovery. To improve British competitiveness in world markets, Brittan expected the government to encourage a fall in interest rates, as it did last week, in order to slow the rise of the pound...
Still, the Socialist government faced a continuing erosion of its authority because of a growing lack of conviction that its harsh economic medicine will work. Faced with a weak franc, record trade deficits and about 10% inflation, Finance Minister Jacques Delors last March imposed an austerity plan that was harsher than anything his conservative predecessors ever proposed. He chopped $7 billion in current spending, imposed a 1% personal income surtax and required each taxpayer to make a loan to the state equal to 10% of last year's income tax. The measures would diminish the purchasing power of virtually...