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...break the deadlock between the rival branches of power. One would be to turn directly to the people, as Gorbachev did in March 1991 when he held a national referendum on a new Soviet Union. Radical democratic groups have long been prodding Yeltsin to put the parliament-or-Pres ident question to a similar vote. Another referendum topic that some economists believe to be absolutely crucial to the success of Yeltsin's reforms is whether land ought to be bought and sold: without private property laws, capitalism cannot flourish. The President says he is considering putting both questions...
...junior high students have rolled their fingers on print cards at school since March. In Topeka, Kans., more than 8,000 youngsters, ages nine months to 17 years, have showed up at malls, churches, schools and scout troop meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring to the office to participate in the company-sponsored Operation Ident. That same weekend in New England, 40 McDonald's restaurants promoted a "Thumbs Up!" Mcfingerprinting...
...political liaison and patronage. Kraft's job is to improve Carter's relations with Demo cratic Party officials and contributors, to help get the President's programs through Congress and to help get him re-elected in 1980. Although Kraft is one of the Pres ident's top staffers, he has re mained almost invisible. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports on Kraft at work...
...American Nazi party. There is a bearded ex-Minuteman who claims he is still "on the lam from the feds" in the U.S. Another is an American peddler who spent months trying unsuccessfully to sell bulletproof vests. "Let's face it," says a longtime American res ident, "if they're losers in the States, they're going to be double losers out here. They all figure that because of the pressure the country's under they'll recoup their losses in an eleventh-hour windfall...
Counters Sprinkel, executive vice pres ident of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "The basic Administration strategy has been to avoid massive stim ulus in the early part of the recovery so that it could be a sustained recovery...