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...harshest exchange of all preceded the Shultz trip to Montevideo, when the Secretary of State appeared briefly before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York City took Shultz to task for mentioning a possible Cuban and Nicaraguan role in international drug trafficking. Then, in a classic case of overstatement, Weiss heatedly added that Shultz's remarks "remind me of the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954." Shultz reddened and replied angrily, "When you compare me to Senator (Joseph) McCarthy, I resent it deeply." The Secretary refused to testify further until he received...
...harshest charge being leveled against the Mengistu regime is that it is using Western food aid as part of its "pacification" program. Though Ethiopia says it has 211 famine-relief centers operating chiefly in its northern provinces, all in towns under government control, Mengistu's opponents maintain that little food is reaching most of the residents of Eritrea and Tigre. The main reason: the government refuses to distribute aid in "unsafe" regions, meaning those under guerrilla control. Those who visit government food centers must display identity cards showing that they belong to state-controlled peasant organizations or neighborhood associations. Says...
More recently, Regan startled even his harshest critics with his proposal for the most sweeping reform of federal tax laws since World War II. Among those who have endorsed the proposal are Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution and Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader--a following that prompted Regan to quip, "What have I done wrong?" The President has not embraced the whole package, but he did call it "the best proposal for changing the tax system that has ever occurred within my lifetime...
...sign that the White House wanted to see. The Federal Reserve cut the discount rate, which it levies on loans made to member banks, from 9% to 8.5%. It was an unmistakable signal for banks to lower the interest rates they charge customers. Even some of Volcker's harshest critics are now optimistic, if not entirely satisfied. Says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The Fed has reacted late and it has probably not gone far enough, but I think we can avoid a recession. The economy should rebound." Administration officials share that view. Says...
What binds these strongly independent men is a warm personal admiration-and, of course, a powerful common interest in resisting Hitler. The letters graphically show how that interest leads them into their thorny alliance with Joseph Stalin. In what must be one of the harshest summit conferences ever endured, Churchill goes to Moscow in 1942 to inform Stalin that the Western Allies cannot possibly open a second front in France that year. "We argued for about two hours," Churchill reports to Roosevelt, "during which he said many disagreeable things, especially about our being too much afraid of fighting the Germans...