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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...
...government's response underscored a harsh reality for supporters of Solidarity: the banned movement has never recovered from the beating it took a year ago, when militiamen first began to crack down on demonstrators. In the meantime, the government has been quietly encouraging thousands of former union activists to leave Poland for the West. Since last July, the U.S. has felt obliged to admit about 1,200 former internees and their families for humanitarian reasons...
This necessarily entrusts lawmaking "to the moment-to-moment judgment of the policeman on his beat" and furnishes a tool for "harsh and discriminatory enforcement by local prosecuting officials...
...waves of success and failure, good leadership and not so good." Some critics have maintained that during the late 60s and early 70s the ICA lost almost all of its reputation, run as it was by the girlfriends of trustees. "That assessment's a bit harsh," says Plaut. "I was not a part of it in those days, but I think the Board just lost its sense that the staff had to be professional. There were amateurs trying to run the place, but they were well-meaning amateurs...
...role as a self-described "citizen of our Atlantic community," Helmut Schmidt has become, if anything, even more outspoken than during his eight years as Chancellor of West Germany. He still has harsh things to say about U.S. leadership of the alliance. But he remains a firm believer in checking Soviet expansion, and, like his successor Helmut Kohl, he is committed to the NATO "double-track" decision. Excerpts from Schmidt's keynote address to TIME'S Atlantic Alliance Conference...